Mogadishu, Somalia - Eighty-eight al-Shabab militants were killed this week in a joint operation by the Somali National Army and allied clan militia in
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Somali army troops and a local militia dubbed the Community Defense Forces took the town of Adan Yabal from al-Shabab without a fight. The town, in the Middle Shabelle region, had been a base for the Islamist group since 2016. Somali people used to be summoned to the town…
people are very afraid. we ve been getting a lot of phone calls and so certainly when we were there we saw it appears as though exactly that is going on. people are trying to stop others from looting their places. we saw sort of gangs on motorcycles which people told us were in fact the looters, going around and people trying to scare them away. so for many people right now, this night is a very, very scary one, fredricka. it is indeed. and the night is still young. it s only after about 8:30 or so your time. reporter: certainly is. when you see that there are still pockets of people out on the streets, is it, you know, an issue of a smaller than ten in groups? are they in groups? or is it just a few people who are milling about? reporter: no, i mean, right now if you see people out on the street, there are still a lot of people out there. you see these people outside their houses with these clubs. i mean, these are almost honest to good community defense forces that have sort