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| Africa Horn |
| Al-Shabaab set up regional administration |
| 2008-12-07 |
| Somali opposition fighters, Al-Shabaab set up a regional administration in a southern region increasing their footholds in the country. Al-Shabaab appointed a regional governor to the Lower Shabelle region marking off their expanding territory from the areas held by the transitional government, the Press TV correspondent in Somalia reported. The group's spokesman Sheikh Mukhtar Robow reportedly said Sheikh Abdulrahman Siiro was inaugurated as the governor during a ceremony held in the regional capital Merka. The fighters had seized the capital from the government troops last month. Siiro's inferiors such as the head of the Supreme Court and the region's security chief were also named. The fighters have captured most parts of the country thanks to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG)'s declining power. They have been struggling for power since 2006 when their leadership, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), were removed on the back of an Ethiopian intervention. |
| Posted by:Fred |