WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA
A roadside bomb killed a Ugandan soldier in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, and masked gunmen killed a man working for the U.N.’s World Food Program in the southwest.
The slayings came as Ethiopian troops who had been propping up a transitional government and fighting Islamist insurgents for two years continued pulling out, saying their mission had been accomplished.
More than 16,000 civilians have been killed since the insurgency started, a million Somalis have been displaced, and a third of the population relies on food aid.
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