Somalia

Three people were killed in fighting in Mogadishu. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the former leader of the disbanded Hizbul Islam, urged Somalis not to accept “foreign food packages carrying messages aiming to Christianize our community.” UN funds to pay African Union and Somali troops are running low.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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