location: Belet Weyne
notes: SVS/TFG militias and local freelance militias (recent SVS defectors, Hawadle clan, led by Abdullahi Barre) were engaged in an exchange of fire on the main road between Beled Weyne and Kalabeyr - in the immediate vicinity of the Beled Weyne airport - in the morning of 12/05. The clash was initiated by the SVS/TFG militias who attacked a road-block set-up by the freelancers. The gunfire reportedly reached the ENDF base on the airport, prompting Ethiopian forces to intervene and to temporarily arrest a number of protagonists. The militiamen were released after a few hours and their weapons given back to them. No casualties were reported.
target_text: location: Belet Weyne, fatalities: 0