Somalia's al Shabaab militants took control of the southern port town of Marka on Friday hours after African Union troops and the Somalia National Army left, the rebels and witnesses said. "We now control Marka police station and the entire town. AMISOM left the town early this morning," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's spokesman for military operations, told Reuters on Friday.
Residents said the militant Islamist group raised its flags inside the town, which is situated 100 kilometers (60 miles)south-west of Mogadishu, and started to preach to residents using loudspeakers.
Comments
Comments are closed.