...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 pushed back al-Shabaab
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the personification of Somali state failure...gunnies from a town near Mogadishu.
The attacks in Afgoye started when a jacket wallah detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a Somali cop shoppe and African Union base. Gunmen then attacked military bases.
Capt. Abdullahi Ali, a senior Somali military officer, says troops have now fully secured the town and the gunnies have fled.