Gedo region is in Sector II 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...
Mission Forces [AMISOM]. The KDF soldiers have often been targeted not only in Gedo but also across the country especially in Middle Jubba.
The Monday morning incident also left five soldiers critically injured, officials added. The lorry carrying troops ran over an Improvised Explosive Device [IED] which was placed along the road by the al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
Death Eaters.
According to reports, the vehicle was in a convoy that had drawn water from a point inside Kenya and was crossing into Somalia for use when it happened at about 1 pm. Until now, the Department of Defense in Nairobi is yet to confirm the incident.
The vehicle, images showed, was badly dismembered and the injured soldiers have since been rushed to Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi. al-Shabaab has been targeting innocent civilians and security forces using IEDs.
Officials said the Death Eaters are exploiting the low-cost strategy and deploying them near operating bases or main supply routes to attack their targets.
This is happening both locally especially in the northern part of the country and in Somalia. KDF troops are among those under Amisom that are operating in Somalia whose main duty is to suppress the Death Eaters.
KDF team has been in Somalia since 2011 and the group managed to flush out al-Shabaab from Kismayo
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region....
, the regional administrative capital of Jubaland in an operation dubbed "Operation Sledge Hammer".
There are close to 3,500 KDF soldiers in Somalia who mainly serve in Sectors II and IV of the AMISOM jurisdiction. The soldiers, despite liberating several strategic towns, lost immensely in 2016 and 2017 after attacks at El-Adde and Kulbiyow respectively.