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EDITORIAL: Amisom needs staying power to beat al Shabaab

Burundian troops serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) forming a secure perimeter during a patrol near the village of Modmoday, on October 15, 2013. AFP PHOTO | ABDI DAKAN | AU-UN IST

By  The EastAfrican

Terror group al-Shabaab chose the closing days of 2019 and the first of this year to engage in a series of blood-curling attacks.

On December 28, a massive car bomb, set off at a check point in Mogadishu left 81 dead and sent hundreds more to hospital.

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