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Africa Horn
US drones in Somalia target Shaboobs
2017-07-04
[FOXNEWS] As Arclight airstrikes ramp up against terrorist groups around the globe, the U.S. military says it conducted a dronezap Sunday in Somalia against Al Qaeda’s third largest affiliate, al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
In late March, President Trump allowed the Pentagon to begin offensive Arclight airstrikes in Somalia. The strike this weekend was the second under this new authority.

One of the reasons the U.S. military asked for more power to launch Arclight airstrikes is the US-backed 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...
troops will begin leaving Somalia next year as al-Shabaab expands inside the country. A new famine has also spread in Somalia affecting up to six million people.

Earlier this year, a small group of U.S. forces deployed to Somalia for the first time since they pulled out in 1994.

Posted by:Fred

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