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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's president named a caretaker prime minister on Tuesday, a day after the outgoing premier lost a power struggle in the government and resigned.
The U.N. refugee agency said fighting in Mogadishu over the weekend between remnants of an Islamic militia and government forces backed by Ethiopian troops has driven around 36,000 people from their homes, adding to the tens of thousands who fled the capital earlier this year.
Hospital officials and residents said the latest fighting was the worst in months in the Horn of Africa nation.
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