Puntland Captures Al Qaeda Weapons Boat

Officials in the Puntland region of Somalia say that they captured a boat loaded with weapons, ammunition, and other military hardware.

According to the officials, the boat had come from Al Qaeda, in Yemen, and was heading to supply al Shabaab.

Al Qaeda has long supplied al Shabaab with not just weaponry but soldiers as well.

Al Shabaab had been taking over large chunks of Somalia, until the African Union had had enough.

African Union forces, mostly from Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia have pushed al Shabaab from their position of strength, to being purely guerrilla fighters.