The US Embassy in Mogadishu denied it’s begun pulling staff out of Somalia because of an increasingly unstable situation in the eastern African nation.
“Recent reports that the US Embassy in Mogadishu has begun withdrawing essential staff are false,” the embassy said Sunday on its X account.
Local media in Somalia cited diplomatic sources who weren’t identified in reporting that the embassy was responding to deteriorating security conditions.
Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-linked militant group, is said to be amassing forces a few kilometers away from Somalia’s capital, while much of the southern part of the country has seen intensified attacks.
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