The government is preparing to retake the coastal district of Harardheere in the Mugub region from Shabaab. Shabaab fighters killed five Somali soldiers in an attack on a base outside Mogadishu. Three Ethiopian and two Somali soldiers were killed in a bombing in Mogadishu. Two Italian aid workers were kidnapped.
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