(Reuters) - Al Shabaab rebels banned some U.N. and international aid agencies from working in Somalia on Monday and began seizing and looting some of their offices in southern and central areas of the country, the Islamist group and aid sources said.
The move comes as aid groups battle to stem a famine that has left a quarter of a million Somalis in danger of starvation and Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian forces fight the al-Qaeda-inspired rebels in the south and center of the country.
Al-Shabaab, which controls large areas of the anarchic Horn of Africa country, said it had "decided to permanently revoke the permissions of the following organizations to operate inside Somalia."...
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