00:00Soldiers patrolled the streets of Mogadishu on Thursday morning after heavy gunfire rocked the Somali capital overnight.
00:09Former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khair said he was attacked by government forces at his city residence in Halwadag,
00:17ahead of planned anti-government protests.
00:20Clashes between rival political factions continued through the night.
00:26I'm one of the Halwadag residents, specifically from Sayidka neighborhood.
00:32Unexpected fighting erupted here. Our children were shocked and we were sleepless all night.
00:38We were in hiding and we took our children out of here early this morning.
00:43We were sleepless all night because of the crackling machine gun fire and explosions.
00:50You see me exhausted because of this.
00:53The fighting affected us, both children and adults.
00:58President Hassan Sheikh Mohammed last month announced a one-year extension to his term, which was due to expire in
01:06mid-May.
01:07Opposition protests were scheduled to take place in Mogadishu on Thursday.
01:12As a civilian, I would call on the government and the opposition to have dialogue and agree upon the elections.
01:19The government and opposition have reportedly begun negotiations.
01:24Mohammed is pushing Somalia towards democratic elections, away from a clan-based system.
01:30Opponents say it's an attempt to centralize power.
01:33After 1943, we did not change this, according to the law of the Halwadag people.
01:33As a civilian, the law of the出去 law of the bandwadag people were still the same with the pawn.
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