African Union Base

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  Kenyan Army Denies Al Shabaab's Claim Of Killing Troops In Raid On Thursday

  The terror group al Shabaab said on Friday its fighters killed dozens of Kenyan troops when they attacked a remote military base in Somalia on Thursday, a claim the Kenyan army denied.

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  Suicide Bomber Was Former Somali MP: Terrorist Group

  A former Somali MP who joined the Shabaab group in 2010 was one of two suicide bombers who killed 13 people near a United Nations and African Union base, the militants announced today.

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  7 Killed As Suicide Car Bomb Explodes Near Peacekeeper Base In Somali Capital

  A suicide attacker set of a car bomb near an African Union peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital Mogadishu today, near the city's airport, police said.

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  Al Shabaab Militants Attack Somali Army Base, Say Dozens Dead

  Al Shabaab fighters attacked a remote Somali army base and entered a nearby town close to the border with Kenya today, saying they had killed dozens of Kenyan soldiers in an African Union force supporting the government during the assault.

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  Islamic Extremists Attack African Union Base In Somalia

  Heavily armed fighters from the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab attacked a base for African Union peacekeepers in southwestern Somalia on Friday, blasting their way into the compound and exchanging fire with peacekeepers, a Somali military official said.

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  Al Shabaab Militants Seize 2 Towns in Southern Somalia

  Islamist militants al Shabaab seized control of two towns over two days in southwestern Somalia, a spokesman for the group and local officials said today, less than a week after its fighters attacked an African Union base in the same area.

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  'At Least 50 Dead' in Shebab Attack on African Union Base: Western Sources

  At least 50 African Union soldiers are believed to have been killed and another 50 are missing after Shebab militants overran a military camp in southern Somalia on Tuesday, according to Western military officials.

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  Shebab 'Storm African Union Base' In Somalia

  Militants from Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab group rammed a suicide car bomb into an African Union army base early Tuesday and stormed inside, an official and witness said.

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  Barack Obama Tells Kenyans They Can Succeed, Sees Challenges

  U.S. President Barack Obama told Kenyans on Sunday on his first presidential trip to his father's homeland there was "no limit to what you can achieve" but said they had to deepen democracy, tackle corruption and end exclusion based on gender or ethnicity.

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  Dozens Killed as Somali Shebab Overrun African Union Base: Witnesses

  Dozens of soldiers were killed today when Somalia's Shebab insurgents overran an African Union base, witnesses said, describing intense fighting which left corpses strewn on the ground.

• Militants Attack African Union Somalia Base, At Least 5 Dead

  Gunmen attacked the African Union's main base in the capital, Mogadishu, today leading to an exchange of gunfire between militants and soldiers that left at least five militants dead, an official with the mission in Somalia said.

• Gunmen Attack African Union Base in Somalia: Official

  A Somali official said that gunmen have attacked the African Union(AU) base in Mogadishu. Mohamed Abdi, a policeman at the capital's airport, which shares a fence with the AU base, said today there was an exchange of fire between the gunmen and troops.

• Three Ugandan military helicopters lost in Kenya: Official

  A Kenyan official said three out of four Ugandan military helicopters that had been dispatched to join African Union forces in Somalia have gone missing in Kenyan airspace.