• How voting went
  across the country
  
• Many die in Angolan
  base collapse
  
• Brain drain
  Why some of Africa's
  top scientists take
  their skills overseas
• Arrests over Ethiopia's
  fake gold
• What's the cost
  of an education?
• Sasol in black
  empowerment move
• Uganda prostitute
  workshop banned

• Tricky dealings in
  hostage case
• Chad pardons French
  aid workers
• US charges embassy
  bomb suspect

• Tutu wants SA
  arms deal inquiry
• Uganda rebels '
  kidnapping' in CAR

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Somalia

Added |2009, 10

Civilians return home

Hundreds of Somalis fled from their houses during Saturday?s fighting which left at least eight people dead while hospital officials said another 50 were injured in the fighting among Islamist rivals Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam. Calm has returned to the city of Kismayo while Al-Shabaab Militias are patrolling the city, according to residents. Extremist group of Al-Shabaab captured the Kay town of Kismayo from its rival group of Hizbul Islam on Thursday after fighting killed at least nine people, mostly fighters in the city, a witness told Africa News. The port town Kismayo is about 310 miles (500 kilometers) south of the capital of Mogadishu and the income it generates through taxes from shipping has attracted the fighters.

Somalia has not had an effective government since warlords overthrew Dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.