The African Union asked the United Nations, Thursday, to increase its AMISOM peacekeeping force in war-torn Somalia from the current 12,000 to 17,700, amid mounting attacks by Shebab Islamist rebels, who control much of the southern part of the country, according to Agence France Presse.
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