WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA
Times Wire Reports
The last Ethiopian troops left Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, after a two-year deployment, and Islamist militiamen took control of their bases.
Ethiopia’s prime minister said he could not predict what would happen when his troops leave Somalia completely, but he expected the extremist Islamic group Shabab and others to try to seize control.
Shabab, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization with links to Al Qaeda, says it wants to establish an Islamic state in Somalia
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