Moderate Somali Militias Clash, Undermining New Strategy

NAIROBI, Kenya — Fighting broke out in central Somalia on Friday between two moderate Islamist militias that the United States and others had been counting on, as part of a new strategy, to stave off the Shabab, the nation’s most powerful insurgents. Shortly before the clashes started, a Western aid worker was kidnapped from the same area.
Somali officials said that fighters from Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa, a moderate Islamist militia, abruptly invaded the town of Adado, setting off an intense street battle between them and the town’s forces in which at least half a dozen people were killed. Read More