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 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Friday for an immediate end to fighting in Somalia and talks between rival clans to end 16 years of violence and instability.
Three days of fighting this week between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops have killed at least 113 civilians, a Somali human rights group said Friday.
"There is an immediate need to secure an end to the fighting, possibly through a declaration on a cessation of hostilities and a commitment to peace by the transitional federal government and all — or at least a majority of — the armed groups and communities in the capital," Ban said in a report to the U.N. Security Council.
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