In Somalia, the Ethiopian government is denying involvement in a deadly attack on civilians in the capital Mogadishu. At least seventeen people were killed Thursday when mortars tore through the city’s main shopping market . Another forty people were injured. Ethiopia and Somali government troops have been implicated in several bombing attacks on civilian areas over the past year. The conflict in Somalia is widely considered Africa’s worst humanitarian crisis. An estimated 6,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the clash between US-backed Ethiopian forces and Somali fighters.