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Kenyan officials say suspected Takfiri al-Shabab terrorists from Somalia have beheaded three people and burnt houses in an attack in Kenya.
Somalia has announced that a senior commander of the militant al-Shabaab group has finally defected to the country’s military.
Somalia’s militant group al-Shabab seized a town in the south of the country early on Friday after it was abandoned by the military and African Union-mandated (AMISOM) peacekeepers, residents said.
Somalia’s militant group al-Shabab has claimed that it has launched a blitz attack on African Union troops south of the country, killing 39 of them.
A car bomb blast has left at least five people dead and more than a dozen others wounded in the Somali capital city, Mogadishu.
Clashes between armed groups have killed three people in northeastern Mali, a security source says, as the United Nations condemned repeated ceasefire violations by the combatants.
A survey by an international charity shows that lack of access to hungry parts of Somalia controlled by the al-Shabab Takfiri militant group is threatening the lives of thousands of malnourished children as the Horn of Africa nation risks falling back into famine.
An explosion caused at least 10 people killed in the south of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, a government official said.
The United States Africa Command says an air strike in southern Somalia has claimed the lives of eight suspected terrorists.
At least 14 people, most of them civilians, were killed as soldiers clashed over food aid in drought-ravaged Somalia’s southwestern city of Baidoa, where tens of thousands of people have streamed in seeking assistance.