Roadside Bombing in Somalia

It is an all too familiar refrain from Iraq, but this time the news of a roadside bomb claiming lives comes to us from the Horn of Africa. Four African Union peacekeepers were killed when the improvised device detonated near their convoy near the capital of Mogadishu. The soldiers were part of a proposed 8,000 man detail that is meant to take over security operations from Ethiopian soldiers. Somalia's transitional government, with extensive Ethiopian backing, removed the Islamic Courts Union from power in December, but the nation has not seen an end to violence, with a rather unconventional war coming into existence in Ethiopia. Though Ethiopia has expressed a desire to remove its troops, both the US and the AU have urged it not to do so, until all of the AU peacekeepers have been given enough time to arrive.

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