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How Qatar is taking control of Mogadishu

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Letter from the NISA and the police to the Somalian president and two ministers, 2 September 2018

While Qatar trumpets its development aid for Somalia, Doha's influence behind the scenes is now extending even to the security apparatus of the febrile Somalian state. Mogadishu has become a front line in the power struggle that Qatar is waging [.

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