Beberapa ribu petempur Islam yang mundur dari Mogadishu, Kamis, mengambil posisi sekitar 300 kilometer ke arah selatan di dekat pelabuhan Kismayu, tapi menghilang Ahad malam, setelah baku-tembak artileri dengan pasukan pemerintah dan Ethiopia.
Several thousand of the Islamist fighters who retreated from Mogadishu on Thursday took a stand 300 km (186 miles) to the south near Kismayu port, but disappeared Sunday night after trading artillery fire with Ethiopian and government troops.