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AFRICOM Chief Voices Frustration as Al-Shabaab Reclaims Liberated Areas, Warns Military Victories Are Being Squandered

Mogadishu (WDN) – The commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), General Dagvin R.M. Anderson, in an interview with journalist Omar Faruk, has delivered one of the clearest expressions yet of American frustration over Somalia’s counterterrorism campaign, lamenting that Somali and international forces have repeatedly been forced to recapture territory they had already liberated years ago....