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Africa Horn
Somalia Says Al-Shabab Official Killed; Follows US Airstrike
2018-10-28
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somalia’s national security agency says a bigwig with the al-Shabaab
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
myrmidon group has been killed, a day after the U.S. military announced an Arclight airstrike against al-Shabaab in the same area.

Saturday’s statement says the unnamed official in charge of collecting revenue was killed on Thursday in Kunyo Barrow, north of the port city of 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...
The U.S. statement says its airstrike near Kunyo Barrow on Thursday killed two myrmidons. The U.S. has carried out over two dozen such airstrikes this year against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab.

In a separate attack, 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...
peacekeeping mission this week said al-Shabaab’s head of tax collection in Lower Shabelle region was killed on Monday after an ambush on a meeting in Bariire.

Al-Shabaab funds its activities by taxing communities it controls.

Posted by:Fred

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