Ethio-Somali soldiers search in Mogadishu district

Hundreds of Ethiopian-Somali troops took new positions around Deynile neighborhood where they started searching for Islamists fighters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, witnesses said on Saturday. "We woke up with Somali soldiers in front of our houses, they are searching for weapons and armed men," said Mohamed Abdulle who lives in Deynile. The soldiers have sealed off at the strategic area in the district of the 5th school and former military college of called (Jalle Siad) deeply entering in Radar-ka and the animal stock market of Deynile.The soldiers have taken positions in the buildings and some civilian houses where the soldiers are vigilantly guarding.“They came in our house and asked us whether insurgents were in, but we all were women “they reproached us and left” said Fatima Nor Abdi a resident.Vehicles have been denied use of the main roads in the district.The Somali transitional government, with the help of Ethiopian soldiers and Ugandan peacekeepers, has been trying to secure the seaside city of two million since the defeat of the UIC late last month. The Government &Ethiopian troops have been conducting house-to-house searches for weapons and suspected members of the defeated Islamists for long time but the residents in Mogadishu accuse the government and Ethiopian troops off civilian killings.The transitional federal government was formed in 2004 national reconciliation conference in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi