Somalia to Close Three Embassies in Europe

Somalia's Foreign Affairs Minister said that the country will close three out of its five embassies in Europe, citing funding difficulties. The embassies in Paris, Berlin, and Somalia’s mission to the U.N. in Geneva are most likely to be closed, according to the BBC report.

The Western-backed Somalian government, which controls only a few areas in the Mogadishu capital, has been under long-term attack from the Islamist insurgents that want to topple the official authorities and install a hardline Islamist state (...)