The President of the Federal Government of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, is scheduled to have a meeting with the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Lloyd Austin, in Djibouti.
The meeting between the two officials is going to take place and the reports are saying that it is on how the United States government would give Somalia military support and help the Somali army with training and airstrikes against the Al-Shabaab group and also support ‘Humanity.
This meeting also coincides with the Somali government fighting against the Al-Shabaab group, whose first phase is at its final stage.
US Defense Secretary General Austin arrived in Djibouti this morning and held meetings with Djibouti leaders and defense officials.
On the other hand, news from the Lower Jubba region says that soldiers of the American army and one of the Kenyan soldiers were wounded by bullets from Al-Shabaab who attacked the base of the Kenyan army in the area of Kulbiyow in Lower Jubba.
The Al-Shabaab organization also said that the attack injured four of the American soldiers and an officer of the Kenyan government, as the group announced in a message it spread on its Telegram page.
The US Army officer who spoke to VOA denied that the group injured US soldiers and injured a contractor working with the Marines, and he also denied that the US military carried out any bombings in Somalia last Friday.
The statement of the American official denied that AFRICOM did not carry out any airstrikes in Somalia last Friday, after the Shabaab group said that the American planes crashed in an area near Burdhhunle in the Gedo region, killing 8 members of the same family. which included children, while the federal government of Somalia said that a leader named Isaaq Abdullahi and 7 of his bodyguards were killed in the attack.
