Advertisement20TH STRIKEThe US Africa Command (Africom) on Friday announced an air strike on a Shabaab target near the town of Qunyo Barrow, in southern Somalia. Pull the weeds," US Defense Secretary Mark Esper explained late last year, in reference to air strikes against jihadists in Libya and Somalia. That makes it sound a lot like the sort of "endless war" that US President Donald Trump detests. She said that Shabaab benefit from a war economy by extorting locals and siphoning off international aid sent to the impoverished country. Amnesty International has reported that US air strikes have claimed many civilian lives, something the US military has denied.

Source: Daily Nation March 08, 2020 03:33 UTC