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| Africa Horn |
| Somali, AU Forces Hunt Shebab Militants in Capital |
| 2014-06-08 |
| [An Nahar] Somali and 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 have carried out a major security swoop in Mogadishu, arresting dozens of suspected Shabaab Death Eaters believed to have infiltrated the capital, the government said Saturday. The security operation, which began on Monday, comes in the wake of a string of Shabaab boom-mobileings and suicide commando attacks against high profile targets in the city, including the heavily-fortified office of the country's internationally-backed president as well as the national parliament. African Union troops and the national army have been gaining territory from the Shabaab in the centre and south of Somalia, but the al-Qaeda-linked rebels have often just melted away -- and there are fears that some fighters and commanders have moved back to parts of Mogadishu. "The Somali National Security Forces along with African Union forces on Monday morning began major search operations in parts of the capital, Mogadishu," Information Minister Mustafa Duhulow said. |
| Posted by:Fred |