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Somalia's Danab special forces fear politicization after U.S. troop withdrawal washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By MAX BEARAK | The Washington Post | Published: December 29, 2020 NAIROBI The United States has invested billions of dollars in Somalia over the past decade, in part to build and train Danab, the only effective, apolitical fighting unit in the country s war against al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabab. Now, with hundreds of the U.S. troops who trained them leaving Somalia under orders from the Trump administration, current and former Danab officers are fearful that diminished American supervision will leave the elite division vulnerable to political interference from Somalia s government, which is embroiled in a bitterly disputed election scheduled for February. In the past, if the government ever tried to interfere with Danab for political nonsense, the Americans were the ones who said: Hey, stop it, said Ahmed Abdullahi Sheikh, Danab s top commander from 2016 to 2019. That was the condition the Americans attached when they started training us, that we d be apoli ....
AFRICOM Sends Warning to Al-Shabaab as US Troops Begin Withdrawing from Somalia In this Feb. 13, 2012 file photo, an armed member of the militant group al-Shabab attends a rally in support of the merger of the Somali militant group al-Shabab with al-Qaida, on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/File) 21 Dec 2020 The U.S. announced a plan over the weekend to begin withdrawing the estimated 800 American troops from Somalia by early January, but it came with a warning to the al-Shabaab insurgent group: They should not test us. ....
Somalia: Suicide attack at the rally of Prime Minister Mohammad Roble, 15 Dead patrika.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from patrika.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Suicide Bomber in Somalia Hits Prime Ministerâs Rally The attack, claimed by Al Shabab, killed at least 10, including three Somali military commanders. Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble was on his way at the time. The attack in Galkayo, Somalia, targeted the countryâs new prime minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble, the government said.Credit.Feisal Omar/Reuters Dec. 18, 2020 NAIROBI, Kenya â Three senior Somali military officers, including a commander with an elite American-backed commando force, and several other people died in a suicide attack on Friday that was aimed at the countryâs prime minister, the Somali police said. The Islamist extremist group Al Shabab claimed responsibility for the blast, which happened in Galkayo, in central Somalia, where Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble was scheduled to attend a political rally at a football stadium. ....