10 Al-Shabaab fighters were killed in a US air strike

The US Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, announced that it had conducted three airstrikes targeting members of Al-Shabaab.

A statement issued by AFRICOM said that the bombing came at the request of the Somali government, after a battle between government forces and Al-Shabaab militants in the Afmadou area in the Lower Juba region in southern Somalia.

The statement indicated that 10 Al-Shabaab members were killed in the air strike, and added that no civilians were injured during the attack that targeted Al-Shabaab.

This comes at a time when the Somali federal government announced that the confrontations that took place between its forces and Al-Shabaab fighters in Afamdo resulted in the deaths of 40 fighters.