African Union peacekeeping mission Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/african-union-peacekeeping-mission/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 26 Jan 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 peacekeeping mission Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/african-union-peacekeeping-mission/ 32 32 Dispute over death toll as Al Shabaab attack Kenyan peacekeepers in Somalia https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/dispute-death-toll-al-shabaab-attack-kenyan-peacekeepers-somalia/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/01/dispute-death-toll-al-shabaab-attack-kenyan-peacekeepers-somalia/ Terrorist group al-Shabab says its fighters killed at least 51 Kenyan soldiers in an attack on a military base in Somalia. This is denied by Nairobi military authorities who say their soldiers repulsed the extremists’ attack and killed scores of them. ends intro Al-Shabab spokesman Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu-Musab says his fighters seized military vehicles during […]

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This is denied by Nairobi military authorities who say their soldiers repulsed the extremists’ attack and killed scores of them.
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Al-Shabab spokesman Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu-Musab says his fighters seized military vehicles during the early morning attack in Kulbiyow town in Lower Jubba region.
Kenyan military spokesman P.M. Njuguna discounts the false rumors being spread by al-Shabab.
He says Kenyan soldiers with the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia fiercely engaged the al-Shabab fighters who tried to penetrate the base with an explosives-laden vehicle.
A Somali military officer, Col. Ahmed Ali, says al-Shabab’s massive suicide car bomb allowed dozens of extremists with machine-guns to overrun the Kenyan camp, torching tents and arms depots.

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