...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...Death Eaters and injured more after conducting an operation near Janale town in southern Somalia, officials said.
The Chief of Defense Forces Odowaa Yusuf Rage told the Somali national news agency that their forces took swift action against the Death Eaters who ambushed a convoy of 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...
Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) some 90 km south of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
"Our forces killed at least nine terrorist Death Eaters who carried out an ambush attack on ATMIS convoy along the road between Bufow location and Janale district. Intelligence reports helped the army to defeat the krazed killers," Odowaa said.
He did not comment on if there were casualties of SNA soldiers during the operation.
The latest onslaught on al-Shabaab Lions of Islam comes a week after the Somali government and local forces launched the second phase of the offensive operation against the group in the Hiraan and Galgudud regions in central Somalia, respectively.