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2023-05-16 Africa Horn
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Somalia: At least 4 soldiers killed in Al-Shabaab bomb attack
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[Garowe] Uganda-trained soldiers were among security officers killed in Sunday's suspected al-Shabaab
 ...... the personification of Somali state failure...
explosion, police said in a report, just moments after Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre lauded the progress made in the restoration of safety in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
Abdikadir Ahmed Ali is reported to be among at least four soldiers who were recently trained in Uganda who died in a landmine explosion on Sunday evening in the Kahda district, Mogadishu. The explosion was the first in as many days within Mogadishu, which has been experiencing relative peace and stability.
Several others were maimed in the IED attack on their military vehicle, police said, adding that those injured were rushed to various hospitals within Mogadishu for advanced treatment. The al-Shabaab murderous Moslems have been targeting security officers who have heightened crackdown against the group in recent months.
Uganda trained at least 3,000 soldiers who were commissioned recently in a ceremony attended by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Kampala. The soldiers, Hassan Sheikh said, were to join the rest of the military in pursuing the al-Shabaab group across the country as the nation wages "the final assault".
Besides Uganda, Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
, and Æthiopia have also trained Somali soldiers who will supplement those trained locally and whose duty is to secure the country from the group. The newly trained soldiers will take the void that 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] peacemakers would leave upon strategic exit scheduled to begin next month.
Elsewhere, government forces in Mogadishu's Hodan district executed a planned operation on Sunday, leading to several significant arrests. Police said a man suspected to have engineered a recent grenade attack in a cop shoppe was among those arrested in the crackdown.
The suspect, Haanta Dheer, police said, was arrested in Mogadishu's Deyniile neighborhood where he was planning major attacks. Two women, purported to have aided the suspect in his assault, were also taken into custody, police said in a report to the media.
Security forces have heightened surveillance in Mogadishu in what is geared towards instilling safety in the busy capital, which was previously a hub for al-Shabaab terrorists. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had promised a total crackdown against the murderous Moslems who have lost significant ground in the country.
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