Protesters want Islamists back, peacekeepers out
Earlier Thursday, hundreds of supporters of the Islamic group had demonstrated in the capital against an imminent deployment of foreign peacekeepers.
The protesters chanted anti-government slogans and burned tires, a day after the African Union said three battalions of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria were ready to be deployed in Somalia and would be airlifted in as soon as possible.
The protesters called for the return of the Islamic movement, which was credited with restoring some order in the violent nation.
Factional violence has again become a feature of life in Mogadishu since last month when Somali government troops with crucial support from Ethiopian soldiers, tanks and war planes ousted the Islamic movement.
