Violent riots once again occurred in the port town of Kismayu last night after the Islamic Courts seized it without a single shot fire on Monday.

Many young men who said were not pleased with Islamists seizure of their city are reported to have staged the riots against the Islamists at a time when they (Islamists) imposed curfew on Ksmayu following Monday's unwelcome demonstration in Kismayu that reportedly claimed the lives of three people.

Furious demonstrators were throwing stones at vehicles parked at roadsides in protest against the Islamic forces that were stationed last night every junction in Kimayu's main streets.

Kismayu was the last harbor town that fell to Somalia's Islamic Courts and it was the only possible area that the African peacekeepers recently signed by the African Union in collaboration with the East African regional peace body [IGAD] could ashore to assist Somalia's tenuous government temporarily based in Baidoa, southern Somalia.

Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi, who is in Nairobi Kenya, appealed for international help over what he called Islamic terrorists expanding in all Somalia.

The Islamists in Kismayu promptly cracked down on "Khat" sale, a narcotic leaf commonly used in Somalia, proscribing its sale or purchase during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Islamic Courts executive council leader Sheik Sharif Ahmed, who is in Qatar, had meeting with prince Sheik Ahmed Bin Khalif, asking for economic assistance.

Sheik Sharif also appealed to Qatar business people to try their business investment in Somalia and in particular asked the kingdom of Qatar to lift the ban on Somalia's livestock that was not exported very recently in fear of diseases.

Sheik Sharif said the Islamic Courts went to Kismayu for the desire of its population, insisting the uprising had begun within people in the port city and that the Islamists helped.

Somalia's federal government led by President Abdulahi Yusuf was formed in 2004 in Nairobi after two years of reconciliation conference in Kenya.

The government hardly controls beyond its Baidoa base, while the Islamists administer most strategic areas in the country, including the capital and they are still maintaining to expand their powers.