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Africa Horn

Somali army targets Al-Shabaab meeting - officials

2024-11-03

[Garowe] The Somali National Army (SNA) in the frontlines targeted a high-level al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
meeting on Tuesday, officials said.

Reports from top military officials say the military targeted an al-Shabaab meeting in Caad village within Mudug, killing three bully boyz instantly while inflicting serious injuries to two others. It is not clear what the meeting was about.

The high-level meeting usually invests in discussions about the strategy and policy of the group besides analysing their gains and losses on the battlefield. The government troops have been conducting operations in Mudug, defence officials said.

Those maimed are in the custody of the military and would be interrogated to give information concerning their actions. al-Shabaab bully boyz have previously lost several areas of Mudug to government troops but a resurgence cannot be ignored.

Melancholically,

…I do love the happily unexpected words non-native speakers choose — even those with better language skills than mine…

the gains come at the time Somalia is embroiled in a diplomatic spat with Æthiopia, one of the Troops Contributing Countries (TCCs) in Somalia. Æthiopia most parts of Western Somalia under 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).

But ahead of the transition to the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) within the next two months, Somalia wants Æthiopia to completely withdraw, citing the controversial agreement with Somaliland

...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
as a basis for 'violation of its territorial integrity and illusory sovereignty '.

Æthiopia wants 20 kilometres of access to the Red Sea in exchange for recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the arrangement has provoked Somalia, which accuses Æthiopia of gross violation of international law.

With Somalia banning Æthiopian troops from participating in the new mission, observers say the move could trigger a resurgence of the al-Shabaab bully boyz in the country.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has visited Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Djibouti to push for their commitment to the new mission.

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