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2019-01-21 Africa Horn
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Nearly 80 Militants Killed In Lower Jubba Region
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali National Army (SNA) backed by the international partners on Saturday killed 73 al-Shabaab
...Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
faceless myrmidons and destroyed armored vehicles in southern Somalia.
Jubbaland said the joint forces foiled an attack from al-Shabaab at a military base at Bar-Sanguni neighborhood near Kismayo
 ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region...
town.
The news agency said international partners conducted Arclight airstrikes in the area that targeted al-Shabaab holy warriors.
Independent sources said that there were heavy casualties on both the army and the holy warriors.
Residents reported hearing airstrikes targeting the holy warrior group early Saturday. They said several strikes hit the faceless myrmidons and their battlewagons in an area between Araare and Muse Haji.
The attack came hours after the group said on Friday that their fighters killed 57 Æthiopian troops under the framework of 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 in Somalia (AMISOM) in an ambush near Burhakaba town in southern Somalia.
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