Fighting uproots  63,000 Somalis, UN

New York, 20 Jan-(ANA)-An estimated 63,000 people have been displaced from their homes in Somalia in

just the first few weeks of this year due to ongoing fighting, the United Nations refugee agency has said.

Some 14,000 of them were uprooted in the capital, Mogadishu, where clashes last

week between Government forces and Al-Shabaab and Hisb-ul-Islam militants left

at least 10 people dead, including children.

Similar clashes last year in the capital displaced hundreds of thousands of

people, many of them for the second time in the course of a year in the

strife-torn nation, which has not had a fully functioning national government

since 1991.(ANA)

FA/ANA/20 January 2010---