...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...
troops.
The food, which was meant for humanitarian relief to the Somali people, had been confiscated by the Al Qaeda-affiliated terror group, Al-Shabaab
... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
, who used it instead to feed snuffies at the camp in Lanta--Buro, 40kms west of Mogadishu.
The food has been returned to the local people.
Also recovered was a cache of weapons, which included machine guns and bomb making equipment. 11 snuffies were killed and four others captured.
The capture of Lanta-Buro is the latest in a string of AMISOM successes that have pushed the Islamic fascisti out of much of central and south Somalia.
AMISOM Force Commander, Lieutenant General Andrew Gutti, said that the continuing operations would enable aid agencies to access areas where they had been previously barred by the orcs.
"We are fulfilling our mandate to support the Somali grinding of the peace processor and create a conducive environment for the safe delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid," he said.
Somalia will require increased assistance after aid agencies warned that the country faces another food crisis following poor rains between March and May.