Mogadishu, Aug 8, 2025 (AFP) - Somali army and peacekeepers recapture key town from insurgents

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The Somali army and international peacekeepers have "fully secured" a strategic town from Islamist militants after over a week of fighting, the defence ministry said Friday. Since the beginning of last year, the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab group has seized dozens of towns and villages in an offensive that has reversed nearly all of the gains made by the troubled Horn of Africa nation's army in 2022 and 2023. On August 1, the African Union Supp......

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