Somalia has asked the United Nations to pause a planned drawdown of 3 000 African Union peacekeepers for three months to allow its security forces time to regroup
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia , which is mandated by the UN Security Council, took over from another AU mission in April last year.
In a Sept. 19 letter to the UN Security Council seen by Reuters, National Security Adviser Hussein Sheikh Ali said the government’s year-long campaign to liberate areas from al Shabaab militants in the central regions of the country had suffered “several significant setbacks” in recent weeks. Somalia’s government has not provided a death toll for the attack, but one former official, citing military officers in Cosweyn, said as many as 130 soldiers may have been killed.
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