Somali insurgent leader Robow defects to government: military
Sheikh Mokhtar Robow Abu Monsor (L) and Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage (Ali Dhere) walk in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, January 4, 2010. REUTERS/Ismail Taxta/ MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A former Somali insurgent leader, Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur, has defected to the government, a military official said on Sunday, severing ties with Islamist group al Shabaab. Al Shabaab fell out with its former spokesman and deputy leader Robow in 2013 and he has been laying low in the jungles with his forces since then. The Islamists have launched multiple attacks to ...
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