Battle of El Adde

When

15 Jan 2016

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

2.77° N, 41.79° E

Description

2016 battle between Kenyan soldiers and Al-Shabaab militants

Al-Shabaab-KDF military incident in 2016

The Battle of El Adde took place on 15 January 2016. Al-Shabaab militants launched an attack on a Kenyan-run AMISOM army base in the town of El Adde, Gedo, Somalia. It remains the deadliest attack on the African Union Mission to Somalia and is the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) largest defeat since independence in 1963. As such, the Kenyan government went to extreme lengths to conceal the extent of its losses.

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