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Nov
22
2023
By The African Mirror
Somalia has year to eliminate al-Shabaab militants

Somalia has year to eliminate al-Shabaab militants

NEWS
SOMALIA has one year to expel the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group from the country, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said, with the deadline for remaining African Union peacekeepers to leave looming next December. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab has been waging a brutal insurgency against the Somali government since 2006 in a bid to establish its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. Mohamud, serving his second term as president, said in August he wanted to eliminate it by early next year. "The end game is Dec 2024 when all the ATMIS (the African Union peacekeeping) forces have to leave…
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Jan
05
2023
By The African Mirror
Car bombs kill 35, burn houses in central Somalia

Car bombs kill 35, burn houses in central Somalia

NEWS
ABDI SHEIKH TWO car bombs detonated by al Shabaab militants in central Somalia killed at least 35 people, including eight members of a single family, and wounded 40 more, a senior police officer said. The attack in the town of Mahas was the latest in a series by al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab since government forces and allied clan militias last year began pushing the insurgents out of territory they had long held. "Most of the dead are civilians. They are women and children," Hassan-Kafi Mohamed Ibrahim, deputy police commissioner of Hirshabelle State, told Reuters. "Only one child survived from…
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