Last week, Kenya launched air strikes and a drone attack against al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
rebels after the group grabbed credit for a raid by gunnies on a Nairobi shopping mall in September that killed at least 67 people.
"We ask good people of Somalia in areas of Gedo, Mid Juba and Lower Juba to stay far from al-Shabaab bases/camps/roadblocks," army front man Major Emmanuel Chirchir said on social media.
A "round of visitations" was imminent, he said.
Chirchir declined further comment when contacted by Rooters.
A second front man, Colonel Cyrus Oguna, asked if this meant there were plans for new strikes, told Rooters: "We always have plans to attack a couple of places."
Kenya, which is fighting in Somalia under the banner of 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...
peacekeepers, said its war planes destroyed al-Shabaab training camp on Oct. 31, an attack the Death Eaters denied. A Kenyan drone killed two senior al-Shabaab commanders in a missile attack on their vehicle.
But commanders of the near 18,000-strong AU peacekeeping force say it lacks troop numbers and firepower to extend territorial gains against al-Shabaab, which still controls swathes of rural areas in southern and central Somalia.