Heavy fighting broke out Wednesday in the Somali capital Mogadishu between government forces backed by Ethiopian forces on the one hand and gunmen on the other hand.
According to a reporter met BC in Mogadishu that eight people were killed in the fighting, which is the most violent since the fall of the authority of the Islamic courts in the late last year.
According to reports from Somalia, Somali gunmen were seen يسحلون bodies in the streets. Reuters correspondent said that he was unable to ascertain whether the dead were soldiers or military Somali Ethiopians.
Reuters also reported, quoting eyewitnesses said the gunmen were seen kicked other corpses in one of the capital's streets.
And to restore this scene brought to mind the incident which occurred in 1993 when an American helicopter dropped Somali gunmen in Mogadishu cleric and US military in the streets.
According to our correspondent that Somalia has witnessed several weeks ago significant escalation in attacks against government targets.
For its part, said the Associated Press that "the movement of popular resistance in ground -" published a statement to a Muslim sites on the Internet, saying it "has been subjected to since Wednesday morning to an attack by government troops south of Mogadishu and some areas north of the capital", pointing out that "the movement responded to these attacks and a number of elements of the government security forces have surrendered to them."
The interim government, it says that a period of the next two weeks will be crucial to demonstrate that it can restore calm in Mogadishu, which is one of the most dangerous cities in the world before the meeting attended by leaders of the tribal leaders and warlords who hold former there next month for the purpose of peace.
According to the United Nations relief agencies operating in Somalia, more than 40,000 people have fled from Mogadishu in the month of February last year alone.
Ugandan forces also came in peace-keeping forces of the African Union as well as the Somali government forces and allied Ethiopian attacks and ambushes.
According to relief agencies operating in Somalia, more than 40,000 people have fled from Mogadishu last month
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According to our correspondent ممحمد was born Hassan, masked gunmen clashed Somali-Ethiopian joint patrol on Wednesday.
Unconfirmed reports that soldiers Ethiopia was among the dead.
The Islamic courts have been able to put an end to security, which has plagued the Somalia in the past 16 years when assumed control of Mogadishu in the past year.
But the security situation deteriorated again in the capital, where the United Nations estimates that approximately 40 thousand of the population had been abandoned since last month.
According to our correspondent that the recent escalation coincides with the Government's invitation to convene a Somali national reconciliation conference in Mogadishu in next month.
He adds that it is possible that the militants sent across this escalation references to the city does not enjoy the necessary calm for the Conference.
A deep crisis
He has pledged to hard-liners of the leaders of the courts when they walked out of Somalia to launch a rebel war in the Ethiopian forces, which depend upon the Somali transitional government.
But analyst David as the BBC for African Affairs say fighting occurring in Mogadishu is not confined to the participation of Islamists and roots deeper than that.
He says that the groups involved in these battles involving militants of the largest tribes that inhabit the capital, after clan, where the leaders of the clan of the hostile attitude towards Ethiopian intervention in Somalia.
Tribal leaders and senior has held its meeting Tuesday night before the outbreak of fighting, issued a statement hostile to Ethiopian forces and the transitional government.
They also expressed their distrust of Ugandan peacekeeping force sent by the African Union and commenced deployment in Mogadishu.
Spearheading the Somali transitional government Abdullahi Yusuf, immigrants from the region of Puntland belonged to the clan darud.
Clan after accusing him of escalating the crisis and the strengthening of the influence of militia loyal to him and reliance on Ethiopian troops that are not trusted by the Somalis.
