Somalia: RRA Chairman Offers to Reinstate His Deputies

The chairman of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), Col Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud, has called on his two deputies to return to Baidoa and promised they would not be harmed, a member of the RRA told IRIN on Thursday.

Baidoa, which is the headquarters of the RRA, has been the scene of fierce factional fighting between two RRA factions over the past month. The fighting first broke out on 1 July between forces loyal to Shatigadud and those of his two deputies, Shaykh Adan Madobe and Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade, in an apparent power struggle. On 31 July, Shatigadud's forces drove those of his deputies out of town, and seized control.

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