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Heavy exchange of machine guns and artilleries have resumed in Mogadishu earlier this morning at 6:30 am local time near Mogadishu’s football stadium where Ethiopian forces and Somali insurgents were digging trenches and facing each other few meters away.

The sound of heavy artilleries could be in all parts of the capital city while panic stricken civilians are still fleeing from the city.

it is the second day clashes between Ethiopian forces and Somali insurgents with no attempts of negotiations or cease being taken. Article

With scenes of carnage shocking even by Somali standards, residents said the final death toll from the worst day of fighting since a war over the New Year could be much higher.

“People are worried, they did not know whether they will survive today or not,” said Osman Gabayre, a local journalist who saw five dead civilians on the streets and the wreck of an Ethiopian army truck hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. “I saw the remains of 17 Ethiopian soldiers there,” he said. Mobs tied ropes to some of the dead soldiers and dragged them through the streets. Article

Shorter version: Abandoned by his country, the U.S.

Ethiopia’s intelligence service is holding an American who fled Somalia’s fighting in a secret facility pending a hearing on his status next month, U.S. officials said Friday.

Ethiopian authorities on Friday allowed a U.S. diplomat to visit Amir Mohamed Meshal, 24, of Tinton Falls, N.J., only the second such visit since he was incarcerated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, about six weeks ago.

Meshal was among some 160 people who fled the fighting in Somalia in January and were detained in Kenya on immigration charges in a roundup that was coordinated with the United States.

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The State Department [said] that Ethiopian authorities haven’t charged [him] and plan to hold a status hearing April 14 to determine whether he should be held as a prisoner of war.

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U.S. officials asserted that Kenya’s decision to send Meshal back to Somalia took them by surprise and said they filed a protest with the Kenyan government.

But Kenyan and U.S. human rights groups dismiss the claim, pointing out that Kenya turned over another American who fled Somalia and admitted training with al-Qaida to the FBI.

They charge that the secret transfer of Amir Meshal and the other detainees back to Somalia - sometimes called a rendition - violated international law.

Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, who’s providing legal assistance to Meshal’s family, said he saw “no indication at all” that the case “is a high priority with the United States.” Article