al shabaab News

Mogadishu - Some 200 Al Shabaab militants surrendered to African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces Saturday in Garsale, nearly 80 kilometres from Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, even as the Al-Qaeda linked group continues to suffer significant setbacks.

US Africa Command's top military official has said there is a threat of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al Shabaab and Boko Haram linking up. According to Army General Carter F. Ham, there is evidence that the three groups are combining efforts.

A Somali al Qaeda affiliate, al Shabaab, has mocked the U.S. for the millions of dollars in rewards offered for whereabouts of its leaders by making a counter-offer of camels and chickens for information on the whereabouts of Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Fighting between al Shabaab rebels and Ethiopia backed Somali government forces on Saturday left dozens dead in some parts of the horn of Africa nation.

Mogadishu - A massive scale-up of humanitarian efforts has led to significant food aid flows into local markets to ease Somalia’s famine conditions, but new fighting between military and the militant Al Shabab group continues posing serious risk to supply aid.

Young Kenyans caught in the wave of petty crime have served as a pool from where they are recruited by the Islamist group al-Shabab to fight in Somalia, reports Aljazeera.

Pretoria - The Somali extremist group Al Shabaab is ‘losing momentum’ against a combination of a new moderate group and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), raising the possibility of an eventual defeat of the Al-Qaeda-linked organisation.