When you are a war lord in Somalia, the mundane is threatening

BBC:

Rival Somali warlords have clashed in Baidoa, killing at least 15 people over plans to relocate the government - now based in Kenya - to the city.

The heavy fighting broke out in the early hours of Monday morning, lasting more than six hours, eyewitnesses say.

The city remains in hands of Mohamed Habsade, who wants the government to move to the capital, Mogadishu - in defiance of the new president.

Somalia has been devastated by civil war and anarchy for 14 years.

The Mogadishu warlords want the interim government to set up in their city when it leaves neighbouring Kenya.

But President Abudullahi Yusuf, who has little support in the capital, says Mogadishu remains too dangerous and wants to go to Baidoa and Jowhar instead.

You would think they could come up with more important things to die for.

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