Burundi state television quoted army spokesperson Floribert Biyereke saying that 25 other soldiers were wounded Tuesday’s raid on a camp near the village of El Baraf in central Somalia, while 20 “al Shabaab terrorists” were also killed.
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The state-owned Ethiopian News Agency quoted NISS as saying that Al-Shabaab and ISIS sent their members to the capital, Addis Ababa, and various parts of the country “to carry out terrorist acts that damage human life and property as well as tarnish the image of the country”.
A number of armed assailants stormed the hotel following a suicide attack on the building, and then holed up inside, Hussein said, adding that all of them had been killed in the subsequent siege.
Kenyans and foreign nationals were among the 14 people killed in a bombing- and-gun attack on a high-end hotel complex in Nairobi overnight into Wednesday.
May, who is visiting Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa this week, made the comment in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday
There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamist group al Shabaab carries out frequent bombings in their bid to topple the western-backed government.
Abdikadir Abdirahman, the Director City Ambulance Service, told Reuters on Monday that the death toll has steadily risen since Saturday, when the blasts, for which no organisation had claimed responsibility by Monday morning, struck at two busy junctions in the heart of the city
The al-Qaeda-linked group launched a suicide bomb attack on a Somali army post in Beled Hawo, and then briefly took control of the town, according to Siyad Abdi-Kalil, a regional commander.
Kenyan Coast Regional Police Commander Larry Kieng confirmed the attack at Maleli on Friday, saying security officers are pursuing the attackers.
This strike was conducted with the authorities approved by the president in March
A military offensive launched in 2014 by AU forces and the Somali army pushed out of major strategic centres, but the insurgents, who once held sway over much of the Horn of Africa country, still control some settlements and rural areas.
Hassan who made the disclosure on Monday in Mogadishu, said the battle took place in Suuj Valley in Nugal region, Northern Somalia.
He said government forces had overpowered the insurgents
The department on Wednesday in Washington gave the breakdown as $6 million offer for information on Abu Ubaidah, who became head of the terrorist group after a US air-strike took out Ahmed Abdi Godane in September 2014.
He said: “A KDF aircraft while returning from a combat mission in Somalia developed technical problems.
They also said that the Kenyan security forces pursued the militants over the border with Somalia, killing more than 100 of them
Kenyatta said the attack in Mpeketoni, 50 kilometres from the tourist resort of Lamu, on Sunday, was a well planned, orchestrated, politically motivated ethnic violence against the Kenyans
The government vowed to hunt down the killers