Shabaab declared war on Hizbul Islam for control of the port of Kismayo town. "We will fight al Shabaab everywhere in Somalia if they so much as fire a pistol in Kismayu," Sheikh Ismail Adow, spokesman for Hizbul's executive council, said. Twelve civilians were killed after AMISOM troops and Somali insurgents exchanged mortar fire. The bodies of two beheaded men have been founded in Mogadishu. Government troops left the city of Beledweyne.
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