The two officials will replace Gen Omar Dheere and Gen Abdi Ali Jamame who were killed in IED kaboom early this month.
The generals were leading military operations that liberated villages along the coastal roads from al-Shabaab
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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...Dahir also reshuffled several other sections of the army ahead operations against al-Shabaab.
The army commanders affected by reshuffles include those of 27th, 60th, 21st and 54th sectors of the Somali National Army.
Somali army backed by troops from 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) has been carrying out offensives against al-Shabaab fighters in south and central Somalia.
Al-Shabaab which has been fighting to overthrow Somali government for a decade now has lost many towns in southern Somalia.