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CHINA'S foreign ministry warned residents to stay away from Somalia after four Chinese employees were besieged during an armed clash, China News Service reported today.The Chinese embassy has tried to contact related authorities to help evacuate the Chinese from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, the report said.
Mogadishu has been plagued by violence since government troops and their Ethiopian allies drove out the Council of Islamic Courts in December. For six months, the Islamic group had controlled much of southern Somalia, and remnants have vowed to fight on.
Thousands of civilians have been killed in the fighting this year.
SOURCE: Shanghai Daily, October 31, 2007