hat occurred on Thursday in Shebeeley, Hiran Region comes barely two weeks after another deadly airstrike killed 52 terrorists in Jilib area, in the Middle Juba region. • According to the United States Africa command, the precision airstrike is part of a larger effort to support the Somali National Army as

control over large swaths of central and south Somalia. According to the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Ethiopia, these include the regions of "Middle Juba, most of Hiran, Bay and Bakol regions, and sizeable parts of Galgadud, and Lower and Middle Shabelle."223 At least 20 districts are controlled dire