Somalia

The African Union approved a plan to send nine battalions of African peacekeeping troops to Somalia. Gunmen in Mogadishu attacked a convoy of Ethiopian troops. The president’s palace was unsuccessfully assaulted.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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