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Gunfire erupts in Mogadishu before protests against Somali president’s rule

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud “bears full responsibility for today’s violent attack on our consultative meeting”, he [said](https://x.com/HassanAKhaire/status/2062199286347997533). Somalia has fallen into yet another political crisis after Mohamud announced that his term

Civilians flee Mogadishu as Somali troops and opposition-allied militias trade fire

Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee. The violence flared up ahead of planned protests on Thursday over president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Guardian reporter and colleagues detained and beaten by Somali police

Mohamud](https://x.com/KaabTV/status/2052815618647437742) on Friday evening while in a restaurant in the centre of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. They said they were assaulted by members of Somalia’s US-trained counter-terrorism police unit