Islamic rebels take port town
Times Wire Reports
A radical Islamic group seized another Somali port town, consolidating its control over a southwestern region that borders the capital.
Amin Adan, a resident of the port town of Baraawe, 110 miles southwest of Mogadishu, the capital, said insurgents from the group, Shabab, took control without a fight because the government’s allies left as soon as they heard the insurgents were on their way.
Baraawe is near Marka, a key port town with an airstrip that Shabab, which means “the youth,” seized this week.
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