Somalia cabinet discuss El Adde attack in weekly-meeting

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Somalia’s Federal cabinet held their weekly-meeting on Thursday chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister Mohamed Omar Arte in the absence of Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid.
Among the agenda of the meeting was last week deadly attack on the Kenyan peacekeeping force base by al-Shabaab militants in the South-western village of El Adde.
Minister of Internal Security Abdirisak Omar Mohamed briefed the cabinet on the attack saying that the Kenyan troops managed to regain the control of the camp.
Deputy Prime Minister Mohamed Omar Arte, chairing the meeting in the absence of Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid condemned the attack. He expressed condolences to the Kenyan government and families of the soldiers lost in the attack.
Mr Arte lauded Kenya’s support towards Somalia and encouraged the troops to continue their mission.
Kenyan officials have declined to give details on the number of casualties though al-Shabaab have claimed on their side to have killed over 100-soldiers.
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