In news from Somalia, the United Nations is reporting 100,000 residents of Mogadishu have now fled the city since February because of the increasing violence. The U.N. refugee agency said the exodus was comparable to conditions after the ouster of Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.

Millicent Mutali, UNHCR senior public information officer: “In the last two weeks we have had estimates of up to 50,000 people who have left Mogadishu, and many people are saying that their lives are at risk. There is indiscriminate shooting. There is robbing of people at their homes, people on the road. Basically there is a breakdown of law and order, and people are leaving.”