Important targets that Amisom set out to achieve as part of our Somalia exit strategy are being completed
Militants from Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabab group rammed a suicide car bomb into an African Union army base and stormed inside.
Despite gains, the overall picture is of an excruciatingly slow pace in increasing women’s participation in the African political space, surveys show.
The AU says that three peacekeepers and five Islamist gunmen were killed in the ensuing battle, which saw the gunmen infiltrate the base in Mogadishu.
The AU said lifting the travel ban would ease the economic impact of the restrictions, which add to continent’s woes.
The African Union will have to deal with a crisis of another colour altogether, even as a continental response strategy to illness takes shape.
Somalia’s al-Shabab rebels have carried out a major attack against intelligence headquarters and a detention facility in central Mogadishu.
The African Union has backed a call to boost by about a third the number of troops in an African peacekeeping force in Somalia.
Nicholas Kay, UN special representative for Somalia, says troops in the East African country require more resources to combat al-Shabab.
Kenya’s army chief is boasting that AU troops will soon seize the last key bastion of Somalia’s al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents.
Conflicting reports were made after fighters from Somalia’s al-Shabaab extremist group attacked an African Union military base in Mogadishu.
Civilians trapped by fighting in Mogadishu have made the most of a lull to flee, even as Kenyan forces continue their slow advance inside Somalia.
Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s capital after African Union-backed Somali troops moved towards al-Shabaab-occupied areas of Mogadishu.
The African Union has for 3 000 more soldiers to secure the famine-struck Somali capital after rebels occupying Mogadishu pulled out.
The international community on Thursday sought to mobilise both greater and more coherent support for Somalia’s beleaguered government.
The African Union’s Somalia mission reeled on Friday from twin suicide attacks on its headquarters.
