Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency has announced the surrender of a senior leader from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab movement.
The agency indicated that Abd al-Rahman Muallem Ahmed, who had been a member of al-Shabaab for 16 years and held various positions in the group, defected and surrendered to the Somali government.
She added that Ahmed, who is known within the group as Abu Saed, was the judge of the youth movement in Banadir province and the advisor to the late leader of the group, Ahmed Abdi Godani
but the agency did not reveal the place where this dissident leader surrendered.
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