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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...myrmidon group burst into a government official's house in northeast Kenya and shot him dead late on Monday, police said.
The four attackers in military fatigues struck in Mandera county, a territory near Somalia's border that has seen a string of al-Shabaab raids in recent years.
"We suspect the attackers are
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the administrator of the county's Omar Jillo area. But the myrmidon group has said it will continue to attack Kenya until Nairobi pulls troops from an 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...
peacekeeping force inside Somalia.