NAIROBI — The United States has invested billions of dollars in Somalia over the past decade, in part to build and train Danab, the only effective, apolitical fighting unit in the country’s war against al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab. Now, with hundreds of the U.S. troops who trained them leaving Somalia under orders from the Trump administration, current and former … Continue reading As U.S. forces leave, Somalia’s elite fighting unit fears becoming a political pawn Washington Post