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thepoliticalnotebook: Al-Shabaab retreats from Mogadishu, Somalia. Actually, this is pretty big, because they’ve never done this. Not entirely. After some very heavy fighting with government forces backed by AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) the group began pulling its fighters out of the city that has been their stronghold. The group, actually Harakat Shabaab al-Mujahidin, has had brutal control, particularly in the capital, since around 2006. In the south of the country, they have been making it difficult for aid to reach the millions of people suffering from drought and famine. A witness quoted by the AFP said  This morning every Shabaab controlled position is empty, they moved their belongings on trucks. Their spokesman, Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, says that this is nothing but strategy on their part. Others speculate that friction between the two groups within the terror cell (those whose goal is to enforce heavily restrictive laws based on their interpretation of Islam, and those whose goal is more along the lines of “jihad” against the West) has lead to a split. President Ahmed is taking a victory lap, but warns residents who have fled the city not to return until it’s been rid of explosives. (AFP File Photo of a Shabaab fighter) Read the news articles at Reuters, Capital FM Kenya and CNN. 

thepoliticalnotebook:

Al-Shabaab retreats from Mogadishu, Somalia. Actually, this is pretty big, because they’ve never done this. Not entirely. After some very heavy fighting with government forces backed by AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) the group began pulling its fighters out of the city that has been their stronghold. The group, actually Harakat Shabaab al-Mujahidin, has had brutal control, particularly in the capital, since around 2006. In the south of the country, they have been making it difficult for aid to reach the millions of people suffering from drought and famine. A witness quoted by the AFP said 

This morning every Shabaab controlled position is empty, they moved their belongings on trucks.

Their spokesman, Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, says that this is nothing but strategy on their part. Others speculate that friction between the two groups within the terror cell (those whose goal is to enforce heavily restrictive laws based on their interpretation of Islam, and those whose goal is more along the lines of “jihad” against the West) has lead to a split. President Ahmed is taking a victory lap, but warns residents who have fled the city not to return until it’s been rid of explosives. (AFP File Photo of a Shabaab fighter)

Read the news articles at Reuters, Capital FM Kenya and CNN. 

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