A US official handling Somalia has been transferred from his job after criticising payments to local commanders that are said to be fuelling some of Mogadishu’s worst fighting.

Diplomats said on Tuesday that the US State Department transferred Michael Zorick, formerly Somali political affairs officer at the US embassy in Kenya, to the Chad embassy after he spoke out.
aljazeera.net

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