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Why we may never get to know how many soldiers died in the El Adde attack

Four years after the incursion, Kenya Defence forces are still hunting down for al Shabaab militants in Somalia. Kenya’s entry into Somalia under African Union Mission to Somalia forced al Qaida affiliated militia group to leave Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu which they nearly placed under their control in 2011.

Kenyans have been waiting for official communication about the exact number and fate of KDF soldiers who were ambushed by the militants on Friday 15th January 2016; but even then, more intriguing factor would be to make a hands-on assessment of AMISOM bases in Somalia. Probably, to make an empirical sense and analysis on what went wrong during the dawn attack.

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