Top Shabaab leaders Sheikh Ahmed Abdi Godane and Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur met with Hizbul Islam leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys in Afgoye town to discuss the recent fighting in Kismayo. Shabaab gunmen on a reconnaissance mission clashed with Hizbul™s fighters in the outskirts of Kismayo. Shabaab commander Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Rage imposed new strict rules in Mogadishu. The European Union has suspended its financial support to African Union peacekeepers in Somalia.
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