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Mareeg Media
April 26, 2018
MOGADISHU – Former Hizbul Islam leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has on Wednesday launched furious attack on Al Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab group based in .... In June 2013, Aweys was taken into custody by Somali security forces,[32] denoting the victory of the hardliners described in al-Shabab.
AllAfrica.com
April 26, 2018
Three new attacks, allegedly by Al-Shabaab, a militant youth group in northern Mozambique, have left an unconfirmed number of deaths in recent days. A spate of violence has erupted in the region since last year's string of attacks on police stations that left two officers and 14 attackers dead. Known locallyÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 25, 2018
Heavily armed Al Shabaab fighters were reported to have attacked a military convoy carrying peacekeepers from Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) in southern Somalia. The convoy came under ambush assault as it was travelling El-Waregow area, located outside the southern coastal city of Marka,Ãâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 24, 2018
Heavily armed Al-Shabab militants have launched an overnight attack against AMISOM military base in the vicinity of Elasha Biyaha, located on the outskirts of Mogadishu. Residents reported that units from Al-Shabaab carried out the assault in the early hours of the night on Burundi forces based atÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 23, 2018
The troops of Somalia's southern Federal member state of Jubbaland were reported to have clashed with the Al-Qaeda-linked militants near the port city of Kismayo on Monday. The combat flared up after Al Shabaab fighters began military movements around areas near Bula-Gadud town which are largelyÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
April 23, 2018
Suspected members of the Al Shabaab terror group on Saturday stole fertilisers from local farmers in Gedo region, Somalia. The farmers started preparing their farms for planting three weeks ago soon after the rainy season kicked in. They mainly engage in the cultivation of bananas, watermelons, onions,Ãâà...
Premium Times
April 17, 2018
Somalia National Army (SNA) said Tuesday its forces killed 30 al-Shabab militants in security operation in Hiiraan region of the country. Army Spokesperson in Hiiraan region, Mohamed Agajof, said the SNA forces also recovered military equipment from the insurgents following a fierce gunfight with theÃâà...
Face2Face Africa
April 13, 2018
For the first time, the Somali government has rewarded a former member of Islamist militant group Al-Shabab after he defected from the group in January this year. Mohamed Hassan Aden Sandhere received $15,000 from the regional minister on Thursday after severing ties with the armed group that hasÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
April 11, 2018
A multi-agency security team dismantled an al Shabaab camp at Ijara, Garissa county after a raid on Wednesday. They recovered two loaded pistol magazines, combat knives, assorted medicines and syringes, a hand held radio, and tarpaulin among other items. The raid came after a tip off from membersÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
April 11, 2018
2012. Caulderwood, Kathleen. “Al-Shabab's Finances: The Militant Group Gets Funding From Local Businesses, Sources Abroad.” International Business Time. 4 Sept. 2014. Web. 2. Apr. 2017. Gornitzka, Charlotte Petri. “Somalia's Lost Generation: Why Youth Employment is Key to Stability.” theguardian 8 May. 2013. Web.
AllAfrica.com
April 10, 2018
The Al-Shabaab has attacked Kenyan military forces in Fahfahdhun area in Somalia's southwestern Gedo region, killing an unknown number of soldiers. The attack began with a roadside bomb blast targeted a convoy carrying KDF soldiers in the small town of Fahfahdhun and followed by a direct gunÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
April 5, 2018
TWO Kenyan Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen commanders - identified as Ahmad Iman Ali and Abditfatah Abubakar Abdi - were designated as specially designated global terrorists by the United States Department of State on 10 March a, Daily Nation reported. Ali allegedly led attacks including anÃâà...
War Is Boring
April 5, 2018
During the morning of April 1, 2018, a car drove up to an Ugandan army base in Bulamarer, Somalia, and blew up — the beginning of an Al Shabaab attack that, in combination with another suicide attack on a convoy of reinforcements, left at least 46 Ugandan soldiers dead. The radical Islamist group hasÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 3, 2018
Kampala — The Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) has dismissed claims by al-Shabaab militants that they killed 59 Ugandan troops in Somalia and wounded 19 others during the Sunday fighting at three army bases in the Lower Shabelle region. Instead, the army spokesperson, Brig RichardÃâà...
NTV Uganda
April 3, 2018
Bodies of UPDF Soldiers killed in Al-Shabab attack returned to Uganda. The Deputy Commander of the UPDF Land Forces Maj. Gen. Sam Kavuma vowed that the UPDF would not be cowed by the Al-shabaab and their resolve to restore peace in Somalia was unshaken.
The Observer
April 3, 2018
The al-shabaab raided the African Union Mission to Somalia (Amisom) base at Quoryole, Bulomareer and Golwein in Lower Shabelle region in Somalia. Bulomareer is located some 130 kilometres southwest of the capital Mogadishu. Eight vehicles including two vehicle born improvised explosives wereÃâà...
Garowe Online
April 3, 2018
Brigadier Karemire waxa uu xusay dhanka kale in Al Shabaab ay uga dileen weerarka 30 xubnood, iyadoo Museveni uu sheegay in 36 la dilay. Kooxda ay xaqiijiysay in 14 ay ku waysay howlgalka Muula-Mareer ka fulisay, kaasi oo ahaa mid midkii ugu khasaaraha badnaa oo Ciidamada Uganda laguÃâà...
gulfnews.com
April 2, 2018
Al Shabab militants attacked the African Union (AU) peacekeepers' base in the town Bulamarer, 130 kilometres to the northwest of the capital ... “Then a large number of Al Shabab fighters began firing from under the trees ... it was a hellish battle,” he said, adding there was an unknown number of casualtiesÃâà...
Garowe Online
April 2, 2018
EL BUR, Somalia - The U.S. military said it carried out a fresh airstrike targeting Al-Shabab militants in central Somalia, the latest military action against the Islamic group in the horn of Africa country, Garowe Online reports. The United States Africa Command [AFRICOM] said in a statement released onÃâà...
Herald Sun
April 2, 2018
Al Shabaab militants attacked the African Union (AU) peacekeepers' base in the town Bulamarer, 130km to the northwest of the capital Mogadishu, around 9am on Sunday (local time), residents from the area told Reuters. Since withdrawing from Mogadishu in 2011, the al Qaeda-linked group has lostÃâà...
The Guardian
April 2, 2018
Al-Shabaab, which once controlled much of Somalia, wants to topple the western-backed government in Mogadishu. Militants detonated a suicide car bomb at the gate of the Ugandan army base in Bulamarer before storming into the complex. A second suicide car bomb targeted a convoy of Ugandan armyÃâà...
Yahoo News
April 2, 2018
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents battled for hours on Sunday with African Union troops after exploding a car bomb outside their base, Somali police, military and the militants said. Al Shabaab militants attacked the African Union (AU) peacekeepers' base in the town Bulamarer, 130 kilometresÃâà...
Mareeg Media
April 2, 2018
Dagaalamayaal ka tirsan Al-Shabaab ayaa weerar ku bilowday qaraxyo ku qaaday saldhig Ciidamada AMISOM ku leeyihiin degmada Buulo Mareer ee Gobolka Shabeellaha Hoose. Sida ay sheegayaan wararka qaraxyo xooggan oo loo maleynayo inay ahaayeen gaari waxyaabaha qarxa laga sooÃâà...
Daily Echo
April 2, 2018
Somalia's al Shabab Islamic extremists launched an attack on African Union troops in the country's south, killing four Ugandan peacekeepers, said Ugandan army spokesman Brigadier Richard Karemire. Four others Ugandans were injured, Brig Karemire said. At least 22 of the attackers were killed and theÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 29, 2018
Dozens of armed men, known locally as "al-Shabaab" -- Arabic for "youth" though with no confirmed link to the Somali militantt group of the same name -- stormed the police station, the fire station and a forest ranger post. In a matter of hours, they had taken control of the town. "We were taken by surprise," aÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 28, 2018
Proceeds from illegal logging and charcoal burning inside the Boni Forest are being used to fund terrorists, the authorities say. Al Shabaab is also benefiting from the sale of game meat by the Boni community. A crackdown on the loggers and charcoal burners have been launched. Speaking during theÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
March 27, 2018
Police have accused Boni residents of supplying food and water to al Shabaab militants hiding in the forest. On Tuesday, Lamu county boss Muchangi Kioi said some of the people are using proceeds from illegal logging and charcoal burning to fund the terror group. But Kioi noted that police wereÃâà...
Daily Nation
March 27, 2018
Lamu County security officers taking part in Operation Linda Boni recover more than 240 bags of charcoal and tonnes of timber inside Boni Forest. Lamu County Police Commander, who led the operation to recover the charcoal and timber says proceeds from the business are used to fund Al-ShabaabÃâà...
Vanguard
March 23, 2018
In October last year, al Shabaab killed more than 500 people in the deadliest attack at a busy intersection in Mogadishu. Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, more commonly known as al-Shabaab, is a jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa. Founded in 2006, the jihadists In 2012, it pledgedÃâà...
WTOP
March 21, 2018
Al-Shabab representives were not immediately available for comment. The group, which has faced growing military pressure across the Horn of Africa nation, has stepped up attacks in recent months including a massive truck bombing in the capital, Mogadishu, in October that killed more than 500 people.
The Star, Kenya
March 20, 2018
HOW MUCH OF SOMALIA DOES AL SHABAAB CONTROL? Jowhar lies north of the capital, Mogadishu, and is under the control of the Somali government. Al-Shabab control the surrounding localities. A few weeks back, an MP and a regional minister were killed in the region by the militants. Click here forÃâà...
The Star, Kenya
March 8, 2018
Reports have emerged of how al Shabaab militants in Somalia are extorting huge sums from starving communities. The militants are also forcibly recruiting hundreds of children as soldiers and suicide bombers. This comes as the terror group endures financial pressures, a decrease in numbers and anÃâà...
War on the Rocks
March 5, 2018
In 2017, the United States conducted twice as many airstrikes against al-Shabaab as it did in 2016 — 31 strikes compared to 15. Last week, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) launched an airstrike that killed two al-Shabaab members near Jilib, a longstanding stronghold of the Somali jihadist organizationÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 3, 2018
She fled from al-Shabab on foot, walking all the way from Somalia, across the border at Lamu and back to Kenya. She was tortured, abused and turned into a sex slave by the militia which she went to join willingly, at first, to find work as a cook. Radhia was recruited in 2013 by one of her close relatives afterÃâà...
Independent Online
March 2, 2018
Mogadishu - At least 11 people were killed in separate al-Shabaab attacks in Somalia on Friday, officials said, as President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo was in Uganda trying to ramp up African Union support for the unstable country's security efforts. Al-Shabaab militants attacked an army post in AfgoyeÃâà...
Eyewitness News
March 2, 2018
Al-Shabaab are fighting to topple Somalia's Western-backed central government and establish their own rule based on their strict interpretation of Islamic law. The group also conducts frequent assaults in Kenya, mostly in the region bordering Somalia, to put pressure on the Kenyan government to withdrawÃâà...
eNCA
March 2, 2018
"This is al Shabaab who carried out the attack because we are near the Kenya-Somalia border." Oronyi said the attackers had destroyed a mobile phone transmission mast to disrupt communications. Al Shabaab are fighting to topple Somalia's Western-backed central government and establish their ownÃâà...
Daily Nation
December 31, 1999
Intelligence reports show that there could be trouble within the Al shabaab ranks in Somalia as there is now renewed conflict from the Shurah on succession. The Shurah is the al shabaab's executive council mandated with commissioning and approving strategic targets for attacks as well as other strategicÃâà...
Capital FM Kenya
December 31, 1999
By MARGARET NJUGUNAH, NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 7 – United States Forces are still pilling pressure on Al-Shabaab terrorists who have continued to stage attacks in war-torn Somalia and the region. This week, in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, US Forces conducted an airstrikeÃâà...
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
December 31, 1999
Police are calling on members of the public to share any information on three suspected Al-shabaab recruits believed to have sneaked to Somalia for training. The three are Mohammed Abdalla Asman alias Papa, alias Raymond from Majengo in Nairobi County, Hamisi Hemed alias Baloteli and Ali AhmedÃâà...
