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Somalia: African Union troops retreat in Somalia as Shebab attack
African Union troops fighting Somalia's Shebab insurgents have pulled back from several key towns following a series of attacks by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters, local...
Somalia: Al-Shabab Attacks Expose AMISOM Weaknesses
Since 2011, the African Union force in Somalia, AMISOM, has delivered blow after blow to Islamist militant group Al-Shabab, pushing the group out of...
Somalia: Islamist Attacks Test Goal of Al-Shabaab Defeat by 2016
A wave of attacks by Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, including on an African Union base last week, shows the threat still posed by the...
Somalia: Al-Shabab ‘kills 30’ at AU military base
At least 30 people have been killed after gunmen attacked an African Union military base in southern Somalia, witnesses say.
A suicide car bomber drove...
Kenya: Al-Shabaab militants assassinate Kenya official in northeast: police
The killers trailed the official to the mosque, took cover to wait for him as he was praying, then shot him as he left...
