... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
in the capital, Mogadishu.
The AU force, known as AMISOM, said Friday that it had driven al-Shaboobs from Mogadishu University and the Barakat Cemetery, areas on the city's northern outskirts.
Witnesses in the area reported hearing heavy gunfire around dawn Friday. Reports from the area say at least three government soldiers were killed when their vehicle was attacked.
Al-Shabaab abandoned most of the city in August but had held on to a few areas and has continued to carry out bombings and guerilla-style attacks in the war-torn capital.