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Al-Shabab: 'No Mercy' for Al Qaeda Affiliate Group After Dozens of Soldiers Killed, Says Somalia President
[NEWSWEEK] Somalia’s president has vowed to show "no mercy" to al-Shabaab...  the personification of Somali state failure...gunnies after the al-Qaeda affiliate raided a military base in the country on Thursday morning, killing dozens. Fighters from the Islamist group attacked a base in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , a semiautonomous region in northern Somalia, killing at least 38 people according to Somali authorities. al-Shabaab said it had killed 61 soldiers; the group often exaggerates corpse counts in its attacks. A 22,000-strong African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force (AMISOM) is assisting the Somali army in fighting the jihadis, and U.S. forces also carry out dronezaps in the country. "We promise that al-Shabaab won’t get away with this. As of now, our troops are in hot pursuit of the enemy, they will pay for today’s attack," said Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo in a statement Thursday. Farmajo was elected in February and has declared war on the Lion of Islams, who have been fighting against the Western-backed federal government in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, for more than a decade. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-10 |
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