Garowe Online (Garowe)
24 March 2011
African Union Mission to Somalia troops (AMISOM) spokesman, Maj. Barigye Bahoku told the reporters in Mogadishu on Wednesday that they will launch soon heavy war against Al-Shabaab militias in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.
He said that they will attack Al-Shabaab bases in Mogadishu to get military bases for 1,000 troops from Burundi recently joined the peacekeeping troops for Somalia. “We want to get military bases for our recently deployed troops and it will be Al-Shabaab bases in the capital,” said AMISOM spokesman.
He adds that their troops control large parts of the capital and they will do their new operations soon to control the entire parts of the war-ravaged capital Mogadishu which is under control of Al-Shabaab radical miltias.
Somali government forces backed by AMISOM troops seized last week strategic bases from Al-Shabaab early this month after deadly clashes that left dead over 100 and injured more than 200, including 50 AMISOM troops broke in the restive capital Mogadishu.
Burundi has recently deployed 1,000 additional soldiers to join 8,000 African Union Troops peacekeeping mission for Somalia to back the week Somali transitional federal government for control of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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Somalia: African Peacekeepers Vow War on Militants