Somalia's armed forces haved launched a major offensive, recapturing a strategic coastal town that the Al Shabaab terror group had held for more than a decade
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud declared"all-out war" on the terror group after taking office in May last year.
"Haradhere and Galcad districts have been taken from the hands of the Al Shabaab terrorists," Defence Minister Nur said.Harardhere was a major base for pirates hijacking merchant ships until 2011. It was later taken over by Al Shabab, which first rose up against the government in 2007 before pledging allegiance to Al Qaeda.
Although forced out of the capital Mogadishu and other main urban centres more than a decade ago, Al Shabab remains entrenched in parts of rural central and southern Somalia. The successes have led some officials to claim Al Shabab is on its last legs. However, experts have cautioned that the group has been pushed out of major towns before only to regroup and reclaim areas the army does not have the capacity to hold.
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