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Al Shabaab attacks AU base in south Somalia

Al Shabaab radicals attacked an African Union (AU) base in southern Somalia early on Tuesday, the group and residents said, with unconfirmed reports that dozens of AU soldiers were killed. The al Qaeda-aligned radicals said one of their fighters rammed a car bomb into the base and then gunmen poured[…]

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University siege leaves 147 dead

At least 147 people have been killed after Kenyan troops cleared a university dormitory in the town of Garissa in northeast Kenya that had been seized by al-Shabab gunmen, the interior ministry says. Members of the Somalia-based group attacked the campus after dawn on Thursday and were holed up in[…]

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Radical attacks kill 173 in Kenya in 2014: Police

Radicals killed 173 people in Kenya in 2014, the highest number in the three years that Kenya has experienced violence blamed on neighboring Somalia’s al-Shabab radicals, Kenya’s police force said Wednesday. The 2014 death toll is even higher than that of 2013 when radicals killed 67 people in the assault[…]

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Al-Shabab claims deadly Somalia car bombing

A suicide bombing has struck Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, killing five people including the bomber, with the armed group al-Shabab quickly claiming responsibility. Witnesses reported a loud explosion, followed by gunfire and plumes of smoke, in Waaberi district on Sunday. The area is close to the heavily fortified international airport. Witnesses[…]

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Al Shabaab kills 10 soldiers in Somalia

Fighters belonging to the radical group al-Shabaab on Monday killed at least 10 Somali government soldiers, including a senior commander, a military source said. Fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and tanks attacked an army base near Afgoye about 30 kilometres north-west of Mogadishu, according to a commander who[…]

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Al-Shabab claims deadly Mogadishu bombing

At least four people have been killed in a car-bomb attack close to the heavily fortified gates of the airport in Mogadishu, Somali police say. Both the airport and the adjoining UN mission have been frequently targeted in the past by the Somali armed group al-Shabab, which is fighting to[…]

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Kenyan leader vows fight against al-Shabab

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed to continue the fight against Somalia’s armed group al-Shabab, hours after the group’s fighters said they had killed at least 36 people at a stone quarry in the country’s northeastern city of Mandera. Uhuru addressed the nation on Tuesday and announced that he had[…]

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