1.   Heavy fighting between Majerten and Marehan clan militiamen has resumed in the southern port town of Kismayo after four days of relative calm, reports said Monday.

2.   Ogaden and Marehan clan militiamen fought side by side in ousting General Said Hirsi, better known as Morgan, from the southern port of Kismayo in June.

3.   Rival clan militiamen battled with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft missiles in south Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing eight and wounding five.

4.   Somalia has no functioning central government, and fiefdoms are protected by clan militiamen.

5.   The rebels later turned against each other and the country disintegrated into fiefs protected by clan militiamen.

6.   The rebels later turned against each other, and the country disintegrated into fiefs protected by clan militiamen.

7.   The rebels then turned against each other and the country disintegrated into fiefs protected by clan militiamen.

8.   They then turned on each other, and the country disintegrated into fiefdoms protected by clan militiamen.

9.   Rahanwein clan militiamen who recaptured the Somali town of Hoddur from the faction of warlord Hussein Aidid appealed Thursday for international relief agencies to return there.