US Denies It’s Pulling Embassy Staff Out of Mogadishu

Mogadishu. 

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The US Embassy in Mogadishu denied it’s begun pulling staff out of Somalia because of an increasingly unstable situation in the eastern African nation.

“Recent reports that the US Embassy in Mogadishu has begun withdrawing essential staff are false,” the embassy said Sunday on its X account.