Somali forces, Al shabaab clash in Mogadishu. Attacks won't chase Uganda from Somalia: Museveni

MOGADISHU (TF.SF)

Heavy clash between Somali government forces supported militarily by African Union peacekeepers in Somalia erupted in Mogadishu, killing 2 and hurting several more, witnesses said on Wednesday.

Locals said most of the confrontations took place the neighborhoods of Bondhere district, north of Mogadishu.

Heavy gun-battle and bombardments could be heard parts in the sea-side capital city.

Medical sources said that number of wounded civilians had been brought to local hospitals where they are being treated.

Shaky clam is right now reported to have returned to the war-zones as the situation is unpredictable

Attacks won't chase Uganda from Somalia: Museveni

KAMPALA — President Yoweri Museveni said Wednesday terrorist attacks will not make Uganda withdraw its troops from Somalia, days after a grenade blast killed three people in Nairobi on a Kampala-bound bus.
"Uganda will not succumb to terrorist activities," the president said in a statement, offering sympathy to the victims of Monday night's explosion.
"After the World Cup tournament bomb blasts that rocked Kampala, Al-Shebab wrongly believed that Ugandans would abandon their Somali brothers and sisters," he added, referring to the Somali Islamist group behind twin attacks on the night of the football World Cup on July 11 which killed 76.
"The continued stay in Somalia by Ugandan troops proved to the Somalis that Uganda is a reliable ally."
Ugandan soldiers form the bulk of the African Union's more than 7,000-strong force in Mogadishu.
The Shebab claimed Ugandans were targeted in the July suicide attacks because of Kampala's support for the weak, Western-backed Somalia government.
Uganda's police chief Kale Kayihura told journalists this week that there were "strong indications" Islamist groups were trying to strike Kampala during the December holidays (AFP)–