Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Somalia: African Union force secures U.N. base after attack by al-Shabaab militants

Troops from the African Union force AMISOM said they had secured a United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu after it was attacked by Islamist militants, the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab group.

"AMISOM was at the UNDP compound within minutes and has it currently secured," the force said on its official Twitter account. A U.N. spokesman and the Islamist militants said fighting and gunfire was heard more than an hour after the initial blast.

The al-Shabaab group said on

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