AFP | June 9, 2011
MOGADISHU — Two suicide bombers attacked the port in the Somalia capital Mogadishu Thursday, killing two civilian workers and also losing their own lives, witness and officials said. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘African Union troops’
SOMALIA: Suicide Bombers Strike Mogadishu Port, Four Killed
Posted in AMISOM, Civilian Casualties, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Suicide Bomb, Terrorists, tagged African Union forces, African Union troops, Al Shabab, Amisom, civilian casulaties, horn of Africa, Mogadishu, Somalia, suicide bombers on June 9, 2011|
SOMALIA: Burundi, Uganda to send more troops to Somalia
Posted in Africa, AMISOM, Military, Somalia, Uganda, United Nations, tagged African Union, African Union troops, Al Qaeda, ANISOM, Burundi, Somalia, Uganda, UN on March 28, 2011|
By: George Obulutsa; editing by Mark Heinrich
March 26, 2011
MOGADISHU, March 26 (Reuters) – Uganda and Burundi said on Saturday they have committed 3,000 extra troops to the African Union mission in Somalia, bolstering the fight against insurgents.
The U.N.-backed Transitional Federal Government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed controls part of the capital, and AMISOM — AU troops from Uganda and Burundi — is fighting to keep two hardline Islamist insurgent groups from taking over the rest. (more…)
SOMALIA: At least 23 killed in Mogadishu fighting: witnesses
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Crossfire Deaths, Crossfire Injuries, Ground Assault, Gunfire, Insurgents, Military, Mortars, Somalia, tagged African Union troops, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, crossfire, Ethiopian troops, Islamist insurgents, Mogadishu, mortar shell, Somalia on October 16, 2008|
by AFP
MOGADISHU (AFP) — At least 23 people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu when insurgents attacked camps housing African Union and Ethiopian troops on Thursday, triggering heavy clashes, witnesses and police said. (more…)
