Mogadishu -
The Djibouti government will send 850 soldiers to Somalia in support of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, while Sierra Leone will send the same number in the next year.
Mogadishu -
According to Associated Press a young man who is allegedly a U.S. citizen blew himself in a suicide action in AMISOM base in Mogadishu killing at least 9 people.
Mogadishu -
According to a spokesperson for the AMISOM peacekeepers, a suicide bomber runs after the convoy of African Union peacekeepers, before he detonated the device on his body.
Somalia's hardline al-Shabaab insurgents has vowed to attack the capitals of both Burundi and Uganda, after rocket attacks by peacekeepers from these countries killed at least 30 people in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.