General Abdimahdi Abdisalan, one of Somali military commanders, told Shabelle Media that the seizure of Afmadow will enable TFG soldiers along with their allied Kenyan army to wipe Al shabab elements out of Jubba regions almost immediately.
Security analysts say this is the second major blow to the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
in less than a week when forces from Somali government backed by those of the AU had wrested control of Afgoye, 30 KM away north-west of Mogadishu.
Strategically, Afmadow locates about 100 kilometers northwest of the port town of Kismayo, the quiet provincial capital of Lower Juba region, which is the biggest and the most critical stronghold of Al-Shabaab snuffies in southern Somalia.