Al-Shabaab Launches Deadly Attack on African Union Peacekeepers in Somalia
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Al Shabaab militants attacked a military base housing Ugandan forces with the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, and a Somali army captain said both sides suffered heavy casualties. Al Shabaab has been fighting to topple the Horn of Africa country's Western-basked government since 2006. The militants targeted a base belonging to the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) in Bulamarer, 130 km (80 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu. Al Shabaab said in a statement that it had carried out suicide bomb attacks and killed 137 soldiers at the base.
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