Clan truce fails to stop fighting in Mogadishu
Mortar shells and artillery fire rained down on Mogadishu, dashing the hopes of desperate residents that a truce brokered by influential clan elders might halt days of Somalia fighting that have left streets strewn with unclaimed bodies.
A military offensive by the government and its Ethiopian allies, which started on Thursday, aims to wipe out a lethal Islamic insurgency. It has sparked the heaviest fighting in the Somali capital since the country tumbled into anarchy in the early 1990s.
