Last updated: 11 may, 2009 - 04:55 GMT

Somalia

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It's one step forward and two steps back it seems for the people of Somalia.

Just as each new political development suggests that peace may be getting closer, fighting breaks out to shatter that hope.

The Islamist politician - Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed - was elected president in January, a political reconciliation was on the cards, but now following three days of some of the fiercest fighting in recent months, more than fifty people have been killed.

So what's the situation this morning. Akwasi Sarpong has been speaking to journalist Mohammed Sheikh Noor in Mogadishu.

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