MADRID, August 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Terrorist group Al Shabaab launched an attack on an African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) base in the Lower Shabelle region (south) on Wednesday, with no casualty reports at this time.
According to information from the Somali news portal Goobjoog News, the base is in the Buulo Marir district and is managed by Ugandan troops. Kampala has not commented on what happened.
ATMIS has not yet responded to the attack. Al Shabaab attacked another mission base in El Baraf in the center of the country in May, prompting Burundi to confirm the deaths of ten of its soldiers.
ATMIS received the support of the United Nations Security Council a month ago and emerges from the reconfiguration of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which is focusing its efforts on the fight against Al Shabaab.
Somalia is facing a surge in attacks by the Islamist militia Al Shabaab, both in the capital Mogadishu and other areas in the south of the country, which has prompted new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to pledge their efforts in the first hundred days of their mandate to focus on security.