Kenyan Defense Forces and Somalia National Army soldiers claimed to have killed over 80 “Shabaab militants in an offensive in Jamaame and Magambo areas near Kismayu in Somalia.” Shabaab fighters attacked government forces near Afgoye district in the southeastern portion of the country. Somalia’s ambassador to Ethiopia has stated that the terrorist group is greatly diminished: “Al-Shabaab is now driven out of all major areas of Somalia. There is no place which it controls as military and political bases like before.”
