African Union Forces Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/african-union-forces/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 04 Jul 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 African Union Forces Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/african-union-forces/ 32 32 US launch second drone attack on Al Shabaab https://jjcornish.com/2017/07/us-launch-second-drone-attack-al-shabaab/ Tue, 04 Jul 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/07/us-launch-second-drone-attack-al-shabaab/ Following President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s ramping up airstrikes against terrorist groups around the world, The US military says it’s conducted a drone strike against Al Shabaab  in Somalia. Boy details have been given about the damage caused by the second strike under the new authority. ends intro The US military has asked for […]

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]]> Following President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’s ramping up airstrikes against terrorist groups around the world, The US military says it’s conducted a drone strike against Al Shabaab  in Somalia.

Boy details have been given about the damage caused by the second strike under the new authority.

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The US military has asked for more strikes against Al Shabaab, which is Al Qaeda’s third largest affiliate, because its expanding operations against African Union troops that are preparing to withdraw next year.

Al Shabaab is also taking advantage to the famine gripping up to six million people in the Horn of Africa.

Earlier this year, a small group of U.S. forces deployed to Somalia for the first time since they pulled out in 1994.

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