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Somalia: Somali food prices protest turns violent
[IndependentOnline: 2010-03-10]
Mogadishu, Somalia - Troops fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis, killing two people in the latest eruption of violence over soaring food prices around the world. Wielding thick sticks and hurling stones that smashed the windshields of several cars and buses, the rioters jammed the narrow streets of the Somali capital on Monday, screaming, "Down with those suffocating us!" In Mogadishu, demonstrators including women and children marched to protest the . . .
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