A former terrorist-Al Shabaab deputy leader has announced an entry candidate, politics, is a joke .Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur is said to have announced his candidacy for leadership of the Southwest regional administration on Thursday, October 4.
The elections are to take place next month. Abu Mansur, a one-time candidate on the United States terror list will be coming up against an incumbent, Sharif Hassan Sheikh
Mukhtar Robow was removed from the terror list in June 2017 and with that, a $5 million bounty on his head was withdrawn. In an August same year, he defected to the government after several days of clashes between his militias and Al-Shabaab.
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