Incoming AFRICOM chief vows sustained U.S. support for Somalia’s al‑Shabaab fight
New AFRICOM chief in Mogadishu pledges deeper U.S. support against al-Shabaab and ISIS
Mogadishu—On a humid Wednesday on the Indian Ocean, as traffic in the capital thinned for afternoon prayers, the new commander of U.S. Africa Command slipped into Villa Somalia for a first meeting with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. General Dagvin R. M. Anderson, newly in charge of America’s military footprint on the continent, promised that Washington will sustain—and sharpen—its support for Somali forces battling al-Shabaab and a…