TY  - SER
AU  - Roble, Muhyadin Ahmed 
TI  - Al-Shabbab: : on the back foot but still dangerous
KW  - Misión de la Unión Africana en Somalia (AMISOM)
KW  - Al-Shabaab
KW  - Terrorismo
KW  - Yihad
KW  - Somalia
N2  - As the Islamic State and Boko Haram expanded rapidly throughout 2014, gaining territory and power in the Middle East and West Africa respectively, al-Qaeda’s Somali affiliate al-Shabaab was on the back foot, retreating from its strongholds as a result of two major offensives carried out jointly by the Somali National Army (SNA) and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops. Key to this was the integration of over 4,000 Ethiopian troops into AMISOM ranks in January 2014, bolstering the number of African Union troops, who were initially from Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti and Kenya, to 22,126 (Garowe Online, January 22, 2014). Within a month of the Ethiopian reinforcements arriving, SNA and AMISOM launched their largest major joint offensive, dubbed “Operation Eagle,” since they had pushed al-Shabaab out of Mogadishu, the capital, in August 2011 (BBC, January 22, 2014; Daily Nation [Kenya], December 1, 2014)
UR  - http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/TerrorismMonitorVol13Issue2_01.pdf
ER  -