...... the personification of Somali state failure...turbans have heightened in Somalia, the Somali National Army [SNA] chief Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has said, noting that the military has killed over 150 murderous Moslems in the last week, the highest ever in as many months according to official records.
The battleground of the most recent epic duel was in Adan Yabal and Masjid Ali Gudud areas within the troubled Middle Shabelle which had been the breeding ground for the turbans for a long time. The military managed to secure the Adan Yabal district from the turbans after seven years of control.
General Rageh, who has at times supervised the operations on the ground, said the turbans have suffered immense losses in the crackdown, something which is now being attributed to their massive surrender to the Somali National Army across the country.
"We killed a total of over 150 al-Shabaab turbans during the operation this week, we killed 50 murderous Moslems 30 km east of Aden Yabal town and over 100 others near Masjid Ali Gudud in the same region, SNA forces with International partners intensify counter-terrorism," Rage said.
Somalia’s SNA forces together with local forces namely Ma’awisley forces liberated many areas under al-Shabaab turbans earlier in Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle in the past four months. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud projects that by the end of this year, the turbans would have lost Galmadug and HirShabelle.
To supplement forces who are fighting with the holy warriors, the government of Somalia has announced plans to repatriate over 5,000 soldiers training in Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
from this month. The last batch of the trainees, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said, is expected to arrive by end of January 2023.