Somalia

Four Shabaab fighters were killed in a blast at a health center in the Bakara Market in Mogadishu. The EU will train 2,000 Somali troops in Uganda. The state minister for defense said Hizbul Islam leader Hassan Dahir Aweys is in danger of being killed by Shabaab. A member of parliament defected to Shabaab. A Burundi military spokesman denied his country is withdrawing from Somalia.

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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