Security and political analysts who have been briefed on Danab say the main training area is 150 kilometres from Mogadishu in Ballidogle, where they have set up a base alongside a Soviet-era airstrip. This will be Danab’s base, where one unit will be housed.
Another group is expected to be based in Galkayo, an area near Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, and a third in the south, likely Kismayo, where the Shabab long held support.
There are plans, according to the Danab fighter, to train the units in airborne, land and sea combat. “I think you will hear about people with a lot of broken bones,” he joked about upcoming parachute training.
He noted that Danab fighters are also paid promptly by their American trainers, unlike his counterparts in the army.
“When I’m in the field, they’ll pay through the mobile phones so I don’t have to be there in lines. My family can still get the money.”
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