Soccer: A barometer of Al Shabab’s retreat in Somalia
Al Shabab fighters chant God is Great in Mogadishu Stadium before losing control of the city a year ago
By James M. Dorsey
Soccer is one barometer of the increasingly successful drive to deprive militant Al Shabab fighters of their grip on large chunks of war-torn Somalia.
With the recent withdrawal of the Al Qaida-linked militants from the port city of Ki…