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outbreak has made life uncomfortable for some south africa. hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have your company al-shabaab islamists attacks 2 somali military bases on wednesday morning the official number of casualties has not been released but say african union troops helped repel the 2nd largest attack those troops were part of the african union peacekeeping mission in somalia cord and was some 4 short they've paid a huge role in security in the country but they are set to leave and that's prompting fears that they have departure could boost.

its my time in mogadishu and army some troops are patrolling the capital. for over a decade the multinational peacekeeping force has been central to somalia security and the battle to contain a mighty enemy. al-shabaab. the al qaeda affiliated islamist extremist group continues to wage a campaign of terror on the population and people are worried things could get worse. we're. going to die if i'm some lives with you thinking that everyone i would be fighting do berlusconi i wouldn't be a lot of losing lives. the african union mission in somalia has recorded numerous successes in the fight against al shabaab in 2011 when the militants controlled large parts of somalia the peacekeeping force helped push them out of mogadishu and cause the militants to lose significant amounts of territory. but

next year i mean some will be gone and the task of containing al shabaab will be transferred to the somali national army some fear they're not ready to go with the line. broken so who the big dig is that will be made. by most. good work only if welcome thank you for the compliment in the big. 2 to the armies of arms of the. many who would agree because al-shabaab is far from defeated. over the last few years the extremists have repeatedly inflicted mass casualties in somalia this bombing attack in mogadishu killed almost 600 people. the militants are also expanding their reach outside somalia leaving many in the region worried about ammi

sums to punch. you in your ear foods. good. to. reduce you because that's true. but the days of the african union mission and somalia are numbered and countries including uganda have started withdrawing the troops. those that are still there are shifting the focus to preparing somali soldiers for battle so soon that have to fight israel and in me . my guess city is oh mamma millard from the international crisis group he's a senior analyst on somalia welcome to news africa enjoy assessment is the so mali national army radio and capable to take on without the support of a your troops why i think right now would be a very difficult proposition because you have. national security sector is

undergoing a lot of changes a lot of reforms there's a lot of training going on and often by outside actors but if they were to have primary security responsibility today i don't think. be a match for al-shabaab which has been there for or over a decade at this point and there's still a very significant crap and so i think that speaks to the issues involved in this drawdown and issues not just building up the small it security forces themselves but in resolving some of the political underlying issues right and also impede security and that really brings me to my next question because as we understand a lot of resources a lot of money really has been thrown into the fight against al shabaab you say which still poses a significant threats to somalia just give us a sense of why that is the case and just how much of the threats do they pose to somalia. well as a child is a serious actor in terms of they control

a good part portion of south central somalia so their presence in small towns and villages they provide governance areas where they are not present they have influence and that can be very disruptive to supply routes blockading towns that have been liberated from their control or even to areas of the capital where they still maintain some ability to even generate financing and pacs individuals so there are very significant presence still in south central somalia i think you know it's times it's better to consider them not just a terrorist organization but a governing one as well. i mean in that country if you alluded to the political situation in the country that also allows that situation to flash you describe that for us well there are some serious tensions in the somalis building project which have not been resolved and currently we're seeing those play out quite cutely between the somali federal government based in mogadishu and it's

federal member states face more and the periphery of the country and so they're not on the same page about a lot of key state building tasks and that really impacts their relationship to work together and so one area where we see this having a negative impact is also of course security in terms of continuing to focus on the walls for bob and working together and that goal how active is al shabaab outside somalia and i'm going to throw another one at you with that and that would be is it possible to defeat this group. yes so the 1st question al-shabaab is definitely active outside somalia's borders i mean we've seen some major attacks in nairobi kenya and of course along northern kenya border with with somalia as well so they definitely have this sort of presence outside the country a lot of it still relates to their demands internally within somalia so for example

they targeted the countries that occurred contributing troops to the african union mission there and so it is its presence outside but are targeting very much for a good internal internally to somalia as well in the 2nd question is it possible to defeat the group i think that's something that a lot of people are starting to ask you please and we're really starting to wonder we've seen the military option go on about it decade we've seen what's happening with the politics you know i think you can and you can maybe grieve and contain al shabaab to a degree but defeating it is a whole different circumstance and we've already seen some language shift around there and that might really call person new approaches all right that's almost lunch with the international crisis group thank you now to another insurgency this one in west africa boko haram has been stepping up attacks in cameroon in recent weeks officials say the group has targeted a number of locations in the country's north in the latest attack 3 people were

killed when armed militants looted shops stole grain and 6 by it's still around 100 homes. have village burnt to the ground. once home to over a 1000 residents is one of many villages targeted in a space of boko haram attacks earlier this week locals are in constant fear for their lives because of the militant violence. i should come all the time we don't sleep at home we sleep in the mountains. on play live we're losing lives who sing brothers losing mothers every day we're in mourning you see our houses are burned goats are burned property people so. cameroon know suffers at the hand of jihadist group boko haram. who are killing both soldiers and civilians in the north. communities have been rendered defenseless against the terrorist

organization with homes shops and clinics far into the ground. because everything was burned the consulting room the pharmacy the head office and the treatment room. for me. everything except for the hospital board. killed almost 300 people in cameroon in the last year alone. the corner virus has claimed more than 2000 lives around the world and numbers lost it in the increasing in africa the just been one reported infection that is in egypt but the continent isn't immune to fear of africa filth the virus has been feeling discrimination against citizens with chinese through. china town in johannesburg there are hundreds of chinese shops here but hardly any

customers. locals tell us that business is always slow after the chinese new year celebration but others fear that the coronavirus is to blame. them and fades. into the but as your literary body became. yes somebody so went to see those people because of that right as it's late it's lays there in the a.z. . urban pong is also afraid of the virus. his 4th generation family lives in johannesburg and he's detected another dangerous trend in recent weeks the coronavirus has awoken a lot of racism and indian people and it was quite hopeful for one of my kids 7 year old coming back to me the other day and see that the kids were talking about the coronavirus and they said oh it's because the chinese people you eat dogs and

cats and she was quite upset because she told them she doesn't eat dogs and cats so when she said every good she's she sees herself as going 1st and then chinese and she's saying she doesn't so it is you see a lot of these type of comments a lot of violent comments saying i'll wipe the chinese people out good you know hope this virus gets all of them those type of things and like i said that's spreading fawcett's me than the actual virus itself. this. is 'd meanwhile south africa's airport authority has increased health checks. nevertheless vajrayana just prize or believes that further cases in africa are likely. still there's no need to panic he says. very considered very much at least for some time because i can say that i believe we have a lot of people here who would be doing what we can do so would prove how much of this is b.o.b.

china back in johannesburg's chinatown they don't want to get. used to the new situation the community here hopes that the global health emergency will soon be under control. and as it can often be dimming is happening you catch all our stories on our website facebook page i'll see you next time and so joining us. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in the meantime the painter ship with just one to the chateau and a few his face force one official information as a journalist and have walked off the streets of many can trust and their problems

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