President Joe Biden has approved the reestablishment of a US military presence in Somalia to fight Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab jihadists there, a senior US government official announced on Monday (May 16th).
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Nearly 18 months after the withdrawal of some 750 American soldiers who were deployed in this country in the Horn of Africa, ordered at the very end of his mandate by Donald Trump, "
less than 500
" American special forces soldiers will be new stationed in the country, said the official who requested anonymity, without specifying the date of their arrival.