2016 Battle of El Adde | |||||||
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Part of the War in Somalia | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
![]() (Emir of Al-Shabaab) ![]() ![]() (Intelligence Chief)[*] ![]() ![]() |
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Units involved | |||||||
Saleh Nabhan brigade[9] Abu Zubair battalion[6][9] | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
200 fighters [5] |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown [**] [13] |
150-400 killed[**] 12 wounded[10] | ||||||
12 civilians killed[15] | |||||||
* Al Shabaab leaders subsequently killed in retaliatory air-strikes (per Kenya's military).[6][16] ** Approximate casualty figure.[17][5] |
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.[6][18][19][20] It has been described by the media as a "military massacre" or military disaster.[18] It was also the largest military defeat in Kenyan history.[14][4]
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