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Al-Shabaab, which merged with Al-Qaeda in 2012 has been the main threat to Somali security and countries in the East Africa region with Kenya became the most targeted.

The new president Hassan Sheikh traveled to Nairobi last Friday and met with his counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta which led to an 11-pointed deal on trade and aviation.

American troops were sent back to Somalia in May after Biden signed an executive order to boost the war on Al-Shabaab in Somalia.

The Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab is battling against Somali and AU troops in several regions in south and central Somalia with an aim to take over the country as the Taliban did in Afghanistan last year.

Al-Shabaab said it was behind the deadly suicide truck bombing which comes amid stepped up military operations in southern Somalia against the militants.

Labada Ganacsade ee la dilay labadii habeen ee ugu dambeysay ayaa kasoo wada jeeda beesha Saleebaan ee Habargidir, waxaana la rumeysan yahay in arrimo la xiriira dagaalkii Baxdo, ee lagu laayay Al-Shabaab loo beegsaday.

KON made various contacts with Puntland Security officials, particularly the Galkayo Police, and have confirmed the news of the escapees.

The assault comes at a time when government forces have recently engaged in a fierce battle with Al-Shabaab on the same road after their convoy was ambushed by armed terrorists.

Speaking via a messaging application, he says al-Shabab has a sophisticated system of tax collection while government oversight of banking and Islamic money transfers, called hawala, is poor.

Al-Shabaab poses a potent threat to Somali security as it carries out attacks in government-controlled areas in the south and central Somalia.

The militants still hold swathes of rural areas in central and southern regions conducting ambushes and planting landmines.

A convoy of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) hit a landmine on the outskirts of Marka, the provincial capital of the southwestern Lower Shabelle region.