Government Forces Lay Claim to Mogadishu

Somalia Transitional Government soldiers take positions near Mogadishu stadium after a brief fight with Al Shabaab fighters.
Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP

Mogadishu, Aug. 7, 2011
Somalia Transitional Government soldiers take positions near Mogadishu stadium after a brief fight with al-Shabab fighters. The Islamist group withdrew from almost all its bases in the famine-struck Somali capital on Aug. 6.

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