African Union Mission To Somalia - Deployment - Casualties and Injuries - 2012

2012

• January 14 - A Ugandan soldier was killed by a Somali soldier in Mogadishu. The reasons for the act are unknown.
• January 20 - Two AU soldiers were injured in a military offensive to consolidate security in Mogadishu.
• March 2 - Two Ugandan soldiers were injured during the capture of the city of Maslah.
• March 29 - Four Burundian soldiers were wounded in a battle on Daynile District on Mogadishu.
• August 31 - 5 Kenyan soldiers were missing after the capture of Miido. A search and rescue was mounted. Three other soldiers were injured. Three of the soldiers were found alive two days later, but the fate of the other two soldiers remained unknown. A few days later, their bodies were shown in a video posted by the insurgents.
• September 19 - Two AMISOM troops were injured during the capture of Janaa Cabdalla town located 50 kilometres to the west of the port city of Kismayo in the Lower Jubba region.
• October 24 - Four Ugandan soldiers were killed by a bomb while advancing towards Baidoa.
• October 29 - 3-4 Ugandan soldiers were killed and seven wounded in an attack by two suicide bombers on an AMISOM base in Mogadishu.
• November 19- At least two Kenyan soldiers who are part of the African Union(AU) peacekeeping force in Somalia were killed in Garissa, a base for security forces in Kenya fighting insurgents in neighbouring Somalia, Kenya's army spokesman said on Monday.