The History of Al-Shabaab
… Burundian peacekeepers, deployed under the African Union Mission to Somalia (AIMSOM). AIMSOM forces were mostly … 2012, but a sequence of Al-Shabaab attacks convinced the mission’s leadership to undertake a new offensive in … to provide troops for the AIMSOM surge, bringing the mission’s total strength to 22,000. [xvi] Supported by the …