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Somalia's drone of elections
« on: July 11, 2016, 05:51:34 am »
Somalia's drone of elections


http://www.theafricareport.com/East-Horn-Africa/somalias-drone-of-elections.html

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Al-Shabaab remains undefeated as the country prepares for a national poll. The international forces fighting the Somali Islamist rebels of Al-Shabaab are struggling.

Shabaab forces recaptured several strategic towns in recent months. The group, which is known to exaggerate death tolls when claiming attacks, said it had killed 130 soldiers and seized tonnes of weapons in a siege on Kenya's El Adde military base in Gedo region on 15 January.

Somalia is moving to a form of elections that has not happened in 47 years

The group continues to carry out targeted assassinationsof lawmakers in Mogadishu, most recently on 9 March, when a car bomb exploded outside a tea shop popular with the city's police, killing three officers.

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