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Center for Research on Globalization
June 21, 2016
Most of the training is done in Somalia due to the lack of government and military control. Al Shabaab is able to manage highly specialised training camps without much domestic interference. There are a couple of training camps which are specialised for hand-to-hand combat in Ras Kiamboni, suicideÃâà...
defenceWeb
January 15, 2015
Kenya's army killed five suspected members of Somalia's al Shabaab militant group on Wednesday and one soldier died during fighting on the north ... "The soldiers were heading to their operation base in Ras Kiamboni from Lamu, near our border with Somalia, when the attackers emerged from BoniÃâà...
Capital FM Kenya
November 4, 2011
“The Kenya Navy while on patrol duties sank a boat in the area of Ras Kiamboni,” he said in a statement. ... A family spokesman of the alleged fishermen Austahi Abdul told reporters in Mombasa that 11 Kenyan fishermen were at the Kenya-Somalia boarder on a fishing mission when they were confrontedÃâà...
BBC News
October 1, 2011
The gunmen struck at Ras Kitau at 03:30 (00:30 GMT) on Saturday. "An elderly, disabled French lady who has been living in Manda Island in her own house was abducted by 10 heavily armed Somali bandits suspected to be al-Shabab operatives from Ras Chiamboni in Somalia, near the Kenyan border,"Ãâà...
The Economist (blog)
September 12, 2011
Kenyan sources suspect the gunmen may have been Somali. If true, it raises the question of whether they were pirates or jihadists belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked Shabab militia which controls most of south Somalia. The camp is an hour by speedboat from the Somali border village of Chiamboni whoseÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
April 15, 2010
Crossing into Somalia on foot, he and a group of 40 other recruits travelled with a group of Pakistani clerics to the town of Ras Kiamboni. It was there that Elmi joined a fighting unit, and got training in the use of AK-47s and in martial arts. Within weeks of the end of training, Elmi was sent to Mogadishu,Ãâà...
Defense Update
January 11, 2007
US officials confirm at least one American AC-130 gunship (video) strike against al Qaeda fugitives in Somalia last Monday night. Witnesses ... A major target for the hunt seems to be Ras Chiamboni peninsula, which sits on the Indian ocean, and is situated less than two miles from the Kenyan border.
