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Baidoa Clashes Intensify Between Federal Forces, Opposition
Clashes in Baidoa between Somalia's federal troops and militias loyal to the former Baidoa president intensified, with heavy fighting in the city center and reports of casualties as both sides exchange fire. The confrontation threatens to worsen a dire humanitarian crisis in Baidoa, a city of more than a million people hosting displaced populations and high rates of child malnutrition, amid disputed claims of control.
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The Battle of Baidoa began on 20 December 2006 when the Somali transitional federal government forces (TFG) allied with Ethiopian forces stationed there attacked advancing Islamic Courts Union (ICU) forces along with 500 alleged Eritrean troops and mujahideen arrayed against them.

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