Al-Shabab : Setback or strategic retreat?

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Al-Shabab : Setback or strategic retreat?

Al Jazeera, 05 Oct 2014

URL: http://goo.gl/cxJU1L
The group's fighters have been withdrawing from a number of areas they have controlled in the southern part of Somalia.

That is a result of a combined military operation called "Operation Indian Ocean" carried out by government forces and African Union troops more than a month ago.

The 22,000-strong African Union force was deployed in 2007, with most of its troops coming from Uganda and Burundi.