Sentence examples for amisom from inspiring English sources

But the "probing" of the Amisom lines by al-Shabaab was in reality very similar to the muscular Sierra Leonean patrol I accompanied into al-Shabaab-controlled Goobweyn.

Al-Shabaab claimed the attack as retaliation for Ugandan troops' participation in AMISOM.

To capitalize on the expected influx of expatriates, the American security company Bancroft Global, which has been training AMISOM troops, has spent more than six million dollars building hospitality facilities in the Green Zone, including a hotel with a swimming pool, restaurants, and coffee shops.

He said that with better equipment Amisom could move forward.

When the commander of the southern Somalia sector of Amisom, Kenyan brigadier Antony Ngere, showed me his map of "al-Shabaab infested areas" it included a large number of red blobs where Amisom rarely ventures.

At both the Kenyan and Sierra Leonean bases I slept only 200 yards from the Amisom frontlines.

"If Amisom left today," said a Somali journalist who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, "al-Shabaab would take power in the capital Mogadishu tomorrow".

Over there!" a corporal from the west African state of Sierra Leone, one of the smaller contributors to the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), shouted.

Amisom has already lost at least a hundred times more soldiers in its campaign in Somalia than the 18 dead US marines who made Hollywood history.

Amisom has made headway in recent years – taking Mogadishu from al-Shabaab in 2011 and Kismayo in 2012.

Most of the firing appeared to be from Amisom troops after short bursts of "incoming" fire from al-Shabaab.