Somalia: Amisom Capture Key Mogadishu Positions

JULY was a fruitful month militarily for peacekeepers and Somali government forces, a spokesman said.

AMISOM, as the peace-keepers are called, and the transitional government forces took over six sites from al-Shabaab militants and reduced the bases from which the Islamists had launched attacks against their side, Maj. Ba-Hoku Barigye, the AMISOM spokeperson, told The New Vision team in Mogadishu on Tuesday.

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