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Is the Central Government in Somalia a More Aggressive Player?
Eric Liu: Where is this fighting happening, and what does the fighting look like from as far as you could tell from your reporting trip? Liu: It's really kind of most apparent in the last several months in the areas just outside of Mogadishu and kind of central Somalia. This is an area where the current president, Hassan Sheikh Mohammed, has tribal connections. And so he's working with local clans who have basically conducted uprisings against Shabaab.