While those sentiments may seem to have dealt a blow to the existing military intervention by the African union forces under the ATMIS initially AMISOM, it lays bare what has been viewed as a long ...

"Al Shabaab militants fired mortar shells at densely populated civilian residential areas in Baidoa town this morning," AMISOM said on its Twitter account. "One round of the mortars hit a hospital.

Cases of extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, and excessive use of force have fostered deep-seated resentment among ...