(AP) Nearly 90,000 people have fled Somalia's capital in recent days, a massive surge of displacements following the heaviest fighting to shake the war-battered city in months, the U.N. said Thursday.
The clashes, the worst between Islamic insurgents and Somali and allied Ethiopian troops since April, have emptied entire neighborhoods, sending 88,000 people streaming from Mogadishu over a three-day period starting Oct. 27, the world body said in a statement.
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