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May 31, 2012
Kenya's army chief said on Wednesday (May 30th) that AMISOM will capture the al-Shabaab-controlled port city of Kismayo within three months.
The port town of Kismayo is the last major town controlled by al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabaaab, which has switched to guerrilla tactics in recent months as regional forces wrest territory from them.
"This target will happen before August when the Transitional Federal Government mandate expires," said General Julius Karangi in Nairobi, according to AFP. Troops from the Kenya Defence Forces currently operate in Somalia under the AMISOM umbrella.
"We continue to exert pressure on al-Shabaab," Karangi said.
Meanwhile, Kenyan troops entered the southern Somali town of Afmadow on Wednesday.
"Afmadow is falling; there is still fighting, but by daybreak it will be ours," said Kenyan army spokesman Colonel Cyrus Oguna.
Al-Shabaab fighters in Afmadow, which lies some 120 kilometres into Somalia from the Kenyan border, had held back Kenyan troops for months, blocking the advance towards Kismayo.
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![Protestors carry placards as they march to parliament in Nairobi on May 14, 2013 as they protest a scheme by lawmakers to increase their salaries. [Tony Karumba/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/05/17/kenya-protestors-salary-100_67.jpg)
![Martin Shikwele recovers at Busia County hospital after surviving an attack by unidentified assailants who have killed at least 13 people and injured more than 100 in villages in Bungoma and Busia counties in recent weeks. [Bosire Boniface/Sabahi]](/shared/images/2013/05/17/kenya-western-violence-100_67.jpg)
![Leader of the Ras Kamboni militia Ahmed Mohamed Madobe speaks during a meeting for the creation of Jubbaland State in Kismayo on February 28, 2013. [Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/05/16/somalia-kamboni-madobe-100_67.jpg)
![A plane carrying members of the Somali Police Force takes off from the Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu January 17th for a three-month training course in Djibouti. [Stuart Price/AU-UN IST/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/05/16/somalia-aden-adde-100_67.jpg)
![Police arrest suspected al-Shabaab members during a security sweep in Mogadishu in October 2012. [Abdurashid Abdulle Abikar/AFP]](/shared/images/2013/05/09/somalia-mogadishu-shabaab-100_67.jpg)
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I am not a Muslim, but my joy is the entire world living in peace. No one should kill the other in the name of religion, because that is not nature. Nature and Religion should reside in our common sense, because that which is good need not be explained. Somali must be free at last from the hands of criminals.
Our prayers not only for our people but also for the people of Somali that they may cooperate in there country's deliberation. God will fight for you. Victory will be ours.
That will be great and we wish all the best in all your undertaking may the Almighty Lord lead always as he did 2 David as he fought against Goriath