Reports from Somalia say that at least twenty people have been killed and many more wounded in two days of fighting between rival clans in the Bay Region.

The Qaran newspaper in Mogadishu says fighting broke out following the introduction of a new tax on commercial items by the Rahanwein Resistance Army, which has been running the Bay region and the surrounding area since January last year.

Somalia has had no central government since President Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991 and is controlled by a range of armed factions, who frequently battle for control of territory.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service