Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for 2 SVBIED attacks on a Ugandan AMISOM base at the Baraawe airport, Lower Shabelle, "opening the month of Ramadan";
Al-Shabab claimed it inflicted significant, but an unspecified number, of casualties while AMISOM claimed it "repulsed" the attack (re: ).
Garowe News, citing local officials, reported that one of the SVBIEDs detonated near the airport and the other inside the base, the latter causing "devastating destruction": garoweonline.com/en/news/somali…
VOA's @HarunMaruf, still going strong despite NISA harassment, reports that 1 SVBIED exploded about 1 km from the Baraawe airport and the 2nd near the parking lot:
The Somali Federal Government claimed its own forces participated in the counter-action against the Al-Shabab attack, though the initial AMISOM report via its Twitter account didn't mention them:
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