Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA)
During the Somali Civil War, Shatigadud was the leader of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), which was founded in September 1995 to oppose the invasion of the Bay and Bakool regions by Mohamed Farah Aideed's Somali National Alliance (SNA). The RRA supported, for a time, the prospects of forming a new Transitional National Government (TNG) under President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan.
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