Last updated: 22 may, 2009 - 16:20 GMT

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Somalia's transitional government takes its first military stand against Islamist insurgents in the country.

Following a three-week onslaught that has killed hundreds of people and sent more than 30,000 fleeing Mogadishu, government soldiers fought the insurgents for control of a strategic road in the city.

The BBC's Mohammad Olad Hassan reports from Mogadishu.

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