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the personification of Somali state failure...The local residents reported heavy shelling at the AU army camp followed by an exchange of gunfire ensued between the attackers and the Æthiopian forces.
Al-Shabaab said it inflicted casualties on the Æthiopian troops serving with 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...
mission to Somalia [AMISOM]. The group did not provide further details on the deaths.
The AU mission is yet to comment on the reported mortar attack which was the latest in series of raids against the AMISOM and Somali National Army forces in the past few months.