Al Qaeda operative and Shabaab leader Aden Hashi Ayro "called for attacks on African Union troops and expressed his wishes of someday beheading women and children in Addis Ababa" in a recording on the internet. Fighting between Shabaab and Ugandan forces took place in northern Mogadishu. A Somaliland colonel and his unit defected to neighboring Puntland.
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