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engaged in combat operations. the purpose here is to enable a more effective fight against al shabaab by local forces and al shabaab has increased in their strength and poses a heightened threat. >> reporter: and that strength has been shown in recent months with an attack, severe attack, on an african union force in early may. max. >> there has been a presidential election, and it feels like that this is quite a coincidence that american support comes in after that transfer of power. >> reporter: well, certainly the public recognition of this has come in after the transfer of power. hard to say whether it is directly linked. but we know that there was significant criticism of the outgoing president of the in-fighting and long delayed election and how many felt that that was giving an opening to al shabaab and other militant actors in the country to foment instability. there was a feeling that much of
now to the war in ukraine. after weeks of relentless shelling, hundreds of people have been evacuated from the steel plant in peculimariupol. suzanne malveaux is live in lviv. so ukrainian forces have completed their combat mission. is this another way to say that the city has fallen to the russians? >> reporter: well, laura, outside of the steel plant in mariupol, essentially the residents have been under russian control and russian hands for weeks now. inside the steel plant however, this is really considered a symbol of the last ukrainian resistance, living resistance. so of course there is some uneasiness and really just saying that it is all folded at this point, there have been hundreds of these ukrainian military inside the steel plant trapped with no food, no water, supplies. their relatives say wounded so badly some of them don't even have limbs. and we saw yesterday this evacuation, really a deal that
from the military side president biden signing this order allowing troops to be based out of somalia. the al shabaab militant group linked with al qaeda has gained strength in recent months, it is a long-running fight against that group. and u.s. officials have said that not only in somalia, but outside of that country, civilians including americans are at risk of attacks. so they believe that it is important to bolster the u.s. presence again in somalia, though they make pains to say that this is not any direct action that forces will be taking. >> our forces are not now nor will they be directly engaged in combat operations. the purpose here is to enable a more effective fight against al shabaab by local forces which al shabaab has increased in their strength and poses a heightened threat. >> reporter: so it is a