Rights group: Somalia clashes kill 138 in two weeks
None
Fighting in central Somalia has killed at least 138 people and displaced 63,000 others in the last two weeks, a rights group said Friday.
Hizbul Islam and its rival, al Shabaab - branded by Washington as an al-Qaeda proxy in the region - want to impose a strict version of Islamic sharia law in the Horn of Africa nation that has had no functional central government since 1991. (Reuters)
