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Somalia

African Union base stormed, 50 killed

At least 50 Kenyan soldiers were killed early on Friday in an attack launched by the Somali militant group al-Shabaab, Al Jazeera reported. Al-Shabaab, a group aligned to al-Qaida, launched the attack on the African Union base run by Kenyan peacekeepers in Ceel Cado, about 550 kilometers west of Mogadishu, near the Kenyan border.