[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Kenyan military commanders and African Union peacekeepers in Somalia on Tuesday met to discuss new strategies in the fight against Al-Shabaab .
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African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) front man Lt Col Paddy Ankunda told Daily Monitor that the meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia discussed the modalities of a joint operation between the Kenya Defence Forces and Amisom to rout the myrmidons.
The meeting, Lt Col Ankunda said, was a follow-up on last week's agreement by the leaders of Kenya, Uganda and Somalia to launch a joint onslaught against the myrmidons.
Presidents Kibaki, Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (Somalia) met in Nairobi last week and agreed to join forces in the war against the myrmidons. (READ: Joint Africa force to hunt myrmidons)
It was not clear whether Amisom troops would team up with the Kenyan forces and Transitional Federal Government fighters to uproot Al-Shabaab from their bases in Southern Somalia.
Currently, Amisom troops are fighting Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu while Kenyan troops and Somali federal government fighters are concentrating on Southern Somalia.
Lt Col Ankunda said an offer by Kenya to send soldiers to Amisom would be considered. He warned that the faceless myrmidons had intensified attacks on Amisom positions in Mogadishu but said they would be defeated.
This comes is after Ugandan and Burundian Amisom troops killed 25 Al-Shabaab faceless myrmidons in fresh battles in Mogadishu on Sunday. 
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