Kenya’s military carried out air raids on al-Qaeda-linked militants in southwestern Somalia after an attack on an African Union military base January 15 in which the Islamists said at least 100 Kenyan soldiers died.
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Kenya said Sunday it was leading a search-and-rescue mission in southwest Somalia after al-Shabab seized an African Union Mission in Somalia base.
According to Al shabaab spokesman, 100 Kenyan soldiers were killed in El Adde attack as unspecified number of KDF soldiers have been captured alive and held as prisoners of war by Al shabaab.
After receiving training, Ahmed and Yusuf travelled to Mogadishu, where they fought in a series of brutal battles alongside other US and European fighters who had joined al Shabaab to take control of the city in 2009, prosecutors said.
She said on Sunday, when several injured soldiers arrived, that the Kenya Defence Forces set up counselling centres in Eldoret, Gilgil and at the Armed Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi. Hence Al Shabab are launching desperate last attempts to create instability ” said the Prime Minister in his conclusion.
The AU peacekeepers, made up of primarily Kenyan troops at the base, launched a counter attack. “We have engaged the enemy and severely degraded him”, he added.
In a statement, Al-Shabab claimed they had killed more than 63 Kenyan “crusaders”.
Mwathethe said Al-Shabaab raided the camp in three vehicles loaded with explosives, noting that the KDF priority is pursuing the attackers behind the Friday ambush.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Friday that “some of our patriots in uniform” were killed.
“This audacious attack – the largest single attack against the Kenyan military inside Somalia – comes as a response to the aggressive Kenyan invasion of Muslim lands and the Kenyan military’s continued persecution of innocent Muslims, particularly in the North East and the Coastal regions”, it said.
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While the militant group has lost territory since being driven out of Mogadishu in 2011 by government and African Union forces, it continues to stage deadly gun and bomb attacks, including in the capital.
