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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - An estimated 27,000 people have fled Somalia's violent capital since June, part of an exodus that has sent a fifth of Mogadishu's 2 million residents fleeing for safety, the U.N. said Friday.
The city has seen little peace since December, when Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's government ousted a radical Islamic militia. Insurgents vowed to launch an Iraq-style guerrilla war.
The unrelenting violence has stopped thousands of people who have fled Mogadishu from returning home, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Friday. Only about 125,000 have returned, the U.N. said last month.
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