Author Archives: praisedone

I had written about how the Shabab were going to lose the border towns in the Jubba regions, given the artillery and air support the local militias and TFG fighters there were getting from Kenya and Ethiopia. I had foreseen … Continue reading →

AMISOM today morning took a strategic path that is to the north of the Defence Ministry in Dayniile district, Mogadishu. AMISOM first took the Defence Ministry earlier this year, and the Shabab fought hard to stop them from advancing towards … Continue reading →

After the Tuesday attack by a Shabab truck bomber on a TFG ministry complex that reportedly killed around a  hundred people, there was some hope that the attack would cause a backlash from the Shabab loyalist base. Apparently, that has … Continue reading →

Mogadishu has been quite calm in the past month (by Mogadishu standards), with intermittent attacks by the Shabab urban guerrilla units on AMISOM and TFG positions, mostly concentrating on the outer bases in the northern and eastern parts of the … Continue reading →

The fighting in Galka’yo, Puntland now appears to be between mostly members of the Lelkase clan on one side and Puntland security forces on the other. The fighting broke out when a man who was said to be from southern … Continue reading →

Last week dozens of people from the southern regions of Somalia were rounded up by the Puntland police, claiming they were Shabab suspects. In reality, most of the people were would-be immigrants on their way to Bossasso, where they would … Continue reading →

The TFG and AMISOM were caught by surprise with the Shabab retreat from their front line positions from 11:00 to 02:00 Saturday morning. It took the TFG until mid-day to send some of their units to San’a in “North” Mogadishu … Continue reading →

The Shabab have finally withdrawn from the whole of the capital after keeping their lines for the past two years, losing thousands of fighters and killing about the same number from the TFG – and to a lesser extent from … Continue reading →

AMISOM lost a position they captured from the Shabab on the early morning of Friday 29th July. The Shabab managed to penetrate the AMISOM lines and destroy a tank, hours after AMISOM made significant gains against the Shabab and taking … Continue reading →

AMISOM soldiers receiving some help from TFG soldiers managed to move as far as a kilometre early today in some areas of the front line in “North” Mogadishu, which is the eastern part of the city. They moved under the … Continue reading →