A Somali officials speaking on condition of anonymity said that the US spy drone had flown from nearby USS Taylor warship.
This is while the main aim of USS Taylor warship which headed towards Somalia from the Suez canal is to hunt kidnappers who abducted US citizens in Somalia's Puntland region.
Somalia has been without an effective central government & has descended in to chaos since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Recently, the US is using a new kind of drone, called a kamikaze drone, in Somalia. It functions both as a missile & an intelligence-gathering reconnaissance aircraft.
The weak Western-backed transitional government in Mogadishu has been battling al-Shabab militants for the past years.
Somalia is of the countries generating the highest number of refugees & internally displaced people in the world.
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