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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 a court as some 4 short they've paid a huge role and security in the country but they also say it's to leave and that's prompting fear is that their departure could boost. its nighttime in mogadishu and i mean 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. if some lives with that you think that sort of ahmed will be fighting the berlusconi out of. a lot of losing lives. the african union mission in somalia has recorded numerous successes in the fight against al shabab 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 where the line.

locals are who the big gig is that they would move. probably most. of the work in for them thank you for the compliment certainly the. 2 to the armies of arms of the. many 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 amazon's departure. you do yours if it is. to.

reduce crime that's true. but the days of the african union mission and somalia are numbered and countries including uganda have started withdrawing their troops. those that are still there are shifting the focus to preparing somali soldiers for battle so soon they'll have to fight israel enemy. my guess city is 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 to day i don't think be 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 ground and so i think that speaks to the issues involved in this drawdown and fissures not just building up the smallest security forces themselves but in resolving some of the political underlying issues right also impede secured 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 shabaab is a serious actor in terms of they control a good part portion of south central somalia so they are present in small towns and villages they provide governance in areas where they are not present they have

influence and that can be very disrupted supply blockading towns that have been liberated from their control or even to areas of the capital where there's 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 flashy describe that for us well there are some serious tensions in the somali state building project which have not been resolved and currently we're seeing those play out quite acutely 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 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 target the countries that it could contributing troops to the african union mission there and so it is its presence outside but it targeting very much related

internal internally to somalia as well in the 2nd question is it possible to defeat the group i think that something bad a lot of people are starting to ask these days 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 degrade and contain al shabaab to a degree but defeating it is a whole different circumstance and we've already seen some the 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 still grain and 6 by it 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 shake come all the time we don't sleep at home we sleep in the mountains. don't really 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 last 8 in the increasing in africa just been one reported infection that is in egypt but the continent isn't immune to fear in south africa feel the virus has been feeling discrimination against citizens with chinese roots. chinatown 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. yeah i'm afraid so you're better believe but as you are very worried already became. the road i hear some moderates women see those people because of that right as it's late it's lays there in the eighty's. when 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 in people and it was quite hurtful for one of my kids 7 year old coming back to me the other day and sure 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 and 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 faster to me than the actual virus itself. is meanwhile south africa's airport authority has increased health checks. nevertheless vajrayana just on prize or believes that further cases in africa are likely. still there is no need to panic he says. we are very concerted it is by their disposal that because i can say that i believe it was b.s. we are doing what we can and do so for slow food movement on ships unsuitability b.o.b. china back in johannesburg 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

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