Battle of Janale (2015)

2015 Battle of Janale
Part of the War in Somalia
Date 1 September 2015 Location Janale, Lower Shebelle, Somalia 1°48′26.000″N 44°41′43.084″E / 1.80722222°N 44.69530111°E / 1.80722222; 44.69530111
Belligerents
Al-Shabaab	AMISOM Uganda
Commanders and leaders
Abdullah Ahmed Omar †[1]	Unknown
Units involved
Al-Shabaab Sheikh Abu Zubeyr Battalion	UPDF
Strength
dozens of	unknown
Casualties and losses
5 killed (Al-Shabbab claim)	70 killed (Al-Shabbab claim)[2] 50 killed 50 missing (Western officials claim)
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The Battle of Janale took place on September 1st 2015, when Al-Shabaab militants stormed an African Union military camp manned by Ugandan forces in the town of Janale, Lower Shabelle.

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It began after an Al Shabaab suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the perimeter of the base, which exploded at the front of the base. Al Shabaab later named the suicide bomber in a propaganda video as Abdullah Ahmed Omar, a former Somali soldier who defected to Al Shabaab in 2014.^[3] Following that, a team of heavily armed fighters entered the breach and attacked the troops inside.^[4] The attack was launched to commemorate one anniversary after the group's former leader Ahmed Abdi Godane's death, who was killed in a U.S. drone airstrike in the previous year.^[5]

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