African Union Needs Troop Surge in Somalia: AMISOM Chief

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS The head of the African Union mission in Somalia is seeking a surge in troops to help the country’s military control areas won back from extremist group al-Shabab, saying the Somali National Army has been unable to take charge as expected. Francisco Caetano Madeira’s request for an unspecified number of extra AU […]

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UN: 3,000 Ugandan and Burundi Soldiers Killed in Somalia

By VOA News, A top U.N. official says up to 3,000 African Union soldiers have been killed in Somalia over the past few years fighting the Islamist insurgency. U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson gave the death toll at a news conference Thursday at U.N. headquarters. Eliasson said Uganda and Burundi, which supplied most of the […]

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