...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...members were killed in the Lower Juba region during a counter-attack.
Lieutenant general Ismail Sahardid Keydsane confirmed that the regional troops repulsed an attack against a military base in Baarka, which lies near the coastal town of Kismayo
...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region....
Jubaland is preparing for an offensive against al-Shabaab, to joint massive operations in Somalia which President Hassan Sheikh said is the final to liberate the whole country.