Experience teaches that stability in Somalia depends on peace in Mogadishu. So recent events in the capital are now the cause of real concern-again. The United Nations reckons that 40,000 of the city's 2m residents have fled increasingly heavy fighting since February. On March 21st at least 15 people were killed in one fire-fight, the heaviest since the Islamist militias were chased out of the city last December. In dreadful scenes reminiscent of the shooting down of an American Black Hawk helicopter in the city in 1993, the bodies of two dead soldiers were dragged through the streets before being set alight by chanting mobs.
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