 Source: Reuters MOGADISHU, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Militias allied to the Somali government captured several key buildings including the former presidential palace in Mogadishu on Thursday, a spokesman for the Somali National Alliance faction said. "We have taken over Villa Somalia," alliance spokesman Abukar Osman Sheikh told Reuters. "Now the Islamists have left Mogadishu, we rightfully took over all the places we used to control including the presidential palace."
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