Fourteen people were killed in fighting between the Quebys and Suleyman clans in central Somalia. AMISOM troops clashed with Islamist insurgents in Mogadishu. Gunmen killed a businessman in Galkayo. A French warship arrested 11 suspected pirates and destroyed their vessels. Pirates seized a Norwegian oil tanker.
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