Do you even know that the conflict is limited to marko-barawe highway and not to the afgooye-walawen-burhakaba high-way?
That this conflict is limited to a few places in south of banadir in between the river shabelle and the sea!
That there is no conflict in the majority of lower shabelle wich consists 7 districts that are afgooye, walawen, qoryoleey, kuntuwarey, sablaale, baraawe and MARKA
The other 6 districts are dominated by digil and non biimaal!
How come than lower shabelle is associated with only wars and biimaal?
If there are HG new comers there are too DIR new comers like the qubays of golwen in the southren out skirts of marka
I'm not even on the side of HG, I support more biimaal but I'm againist their way of solving this problem
In the 90s this high way was a pro-HG including biimaals, the rest were pushed in the interior and beyond the river where biimaal don't exist
The biimaal were one of the gen aideed SNA basic elements just like the akhiro moog of sheekhaal, they got splitted after and the situation get worse during abdi qasim era where HG formed a new coalition with other central somalia elements
Gen dhagabadan has formed a DIR militia inside the SNA and HG were able to influence on hassan sheekh to remove him, since than, the army has splitted more but this move was expected or get worse if the general was still operating in there
Biimaal are solely concentrating on local wars at a time of liberation and their places being next to banadir it won't work to remove their yesterday allies!
Infact they live in a sea of HG from sablaale to afgooye!
HG live more than biimaal beyond the river! In between biimaal and digil and biimaal and banadir!
This situation was created by the biimaal themselves and not the govt!
All the govt can do is to let them manage their places but it won't except such a new clan wars to take place in the land that's under its control because we know if the govt was not there biimaal would have lost it too!
The govt is indeed saving their asses by deploying a multi-regional forces in there and remove the clan militias.
Southren highway, conflict area!


Look the other districts of lower shabelle
http://www.who.int/hac/crises/som/maps/ ... ch2012.gif