Somalia and Al-Shabaab

Military sources in Uganda and Somalia say at least 37 African Union soldiers have been killed in an Attack by Al-Shabaab militants in southern Somalia on Tuesday last week. The attack by the Somali terrorist group occurred on a remote African Union base in the town of Janaale. It was the largest loss sustained by the Ugandan contingent of the AU Mission to Somalia, or AMISOM, since 2012.Other Western sources said that as many as 50 AU troops were killed. The 22,000-strong, United Nations-backed AMISOM force consists of troops from Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Sierra Leone. To help us look at this horrendous act by the Al-Shabaab rebels, we are joined on the line by:James Shemayula: Channel Africa Correspondent: Kwezi Mngqibisa: Manager: Interventions at ACCORD a South African-based organisation involved in Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Preventive Diplomacy throughout the continent Laetitia Bader, Researcher in the Africa Division at Human Rights Watch and our Somalia expertHelmoed Heitman: Defence Specialist: