Kuday Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kuday/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 22 Jun 2014 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 Kuday Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kuday/ 32 32 Kenyan jets strike Al Shabab bases https://jjcornish.com/2014/06/kenyan-jets-strike-al-shabab-bases/ Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/06/kenyan-jets-strike-al-shabab-bases/ African Union peacekeepers say at least 80 Al Shabab militants have been killed in two strikes by Kenyan fighter jets. They say the Kenyan planes hit insurgent bases at Anole and Kuday. The African Union Mission in Somalia says the air strikes in Anole left more than 30 Al Shabaab fighters dead and destroyed vehicles, […]

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]]> African Union peacekeepers say at least 80 Al Shabab militants have been killed in two strikes by Kenyan fighter jets.

They say the Kenyan planes hit insurgent bases at Anole and Kuday.

The African Union Mission in Somalia says the air strikes in Anole left more than 30 Al Shabaab fighters dead and destroyed vehicles, ammunition and equipment.

More than 50 rebels were killed in the Kuday raid.

Retaliating for attacks inside its territory, Kenya sent its troops into neighboring Somalia three years ago.

These later joined AMISOM

Al Shabab’s launched a series of punitive attacks on Kenya – including the siege of shopping centre in Nairobi last year and two raids on coastal towns last week – that have left more than 150 people dead

 

 

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