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US army says it killed 13 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia
[Al Jazeera] At least 13 al-Shabaab...  the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...fighters, have been killed in an air raid outside the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the US army said. In a statement released on Saturday, US Africom said that the attack happened in Gandarshe, 48km south of Mogadishu, on Friday. "To support the Federal Government of Somalia's continued efforts to degrade al-Shabaab, US Africa Command conducted an  targeting al-Shabaab fighters in the vicinity of Gandarshe, Lower Shebelle Region, Somalia, on February 1, 2019," the statement said."US Africa Command currently assesses this airstrike killed thirteen (13) Death Eaters. At this time, it was assessed no civilians were maimed or killed in this airstrike." This is the 10th attack by the United States this year in the Horn of Africa country. Last year, it carried out at least 48 attacks in Somalia, killing more than 330 fighters, according to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Al-Shabaab is an al-Qaeda-linked gang fighting to overthrow the country's Western-backed government. The group regularly stages attacks against the Somali military and against troops from the 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... -mandated peacekeeping force AMISOM. On Thursday, an air attack by the US army killed 24 al-Shabaab fighters in neighbouring Hiran region. On Saturday, an al-Shabaab jacket wallah detonated an explosive-laden vehicle at a checkpoint manned by Æthiopian troops in the southern town of Bardhere. Posted by: Fred 2019-02-04 |
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