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Top RRA officer missing after weekend fighting in Baidoa

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    A top officer in the Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA) was said by the RRA to be missing, presumed captured or dead, after the militia battled with forces of faction leader Hussein Aideed for control of the south-central town of Baidoa at the weekend, AFP reported. Colonel Ahmadey Omar was in charge of an attack during which the town was seized on Saturday, before the RRA lost it again to Aideed's forces on Sunday.

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