Battle of Janale (2015)
| 2015 Battle of Janale | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Lower Shebelle, Somalia 1°48′26.000″N 44°41′43.084″E / 1.80722222°N 44.69530111°E |
Uganda Abdullah Ahmed Omar †[1] Unknown
- Sheikh Abu Zubeyr Battalion
UPDF(Al-Shabbab claim)
(Al-Shabbab claim)[2]
50 killed
50 missing
(Western officials claim)
The Battle of Janale took place on September 1st 2015, when Al-Shabaab militants stormed an African Union military camp manned by Ugandan forces in the town of Janale, Lower Shabelle.
Battle
It began after an Al Shabaab suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the perimeter of the base, which exploded at the front of the base. Al Shabaab later named the suicide bomber in a propaganda video as Abdullah Ahmed Omar, a former Somali soldier who defected to Al Shabaab in 2014.[3] Following that, a team of heavily armed fighters entered the breach and attacked the troops inside.[4] The attack was launched to commemorate one anniversary after the group's former leader Ahmed Abdi Godane's death, who was killed in a U.S. drone airstrike in the previous year.[5]
References
- ^ "Somalia attack: Al-Shabab attacks African Union Janale base". BBC News. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ "Somalia attack: Al-Shabab attacks African Union Janale base". BBC News. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ "12 Ugandan troops killed as Shabaab assaults base in Somalia | FDD's Long War Journal". www.longwarjournal.org. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ "12 Ugandan troops killed as Shabaab assaults base in Somalia". Long War Journal. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
- ^ "Al Shabaab militants raid AU troops base in Somalia". Horseed Media. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
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