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Fleeing militants pose challenge to Somalia's security

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Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into Mogadishu, Somalia, Dec. 8, 2008. [AP Photo]

As Somalia's army and allied clan militias continue to drive al-Shabab fighters out of locales in central Somalia, analysts warn the country could still face security threats from Islamist militants on the run.

Somalia's National Army is in the middle of a military offensive against al-Shabab. Since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud declared a "total war" against the militants in August 2022, al-Shabab fighters have withdrawn from some of the group's central Somalia strongholds under military pressure from the army, the militias and international partners' airstrikes.

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