Somalia telecoms employee killed by U.S. air strike -company‏

A U.S. air strike in a town held by Somali Islamist insurgents killed a telecommunications worker, his employer said on Tuesday, as the U.S. military’s Africa Command said it was investigating the report.

The strike follows allegations from Amnesty International a year ago that U.S. strikes were killing civilians.

Amnesty then said it had documented 14 civilian deaths in just five air strikes in 2017 and 2018. At the time, Africa Command (Africom) rejected the report but later said a review found that two civilians had been killed in a 2018 strike.

Africom carried out 63 air strikes in Somalia last year and has carried out 18 this year so far.

Monday’s strike in the al Shabaab stronghold of Jilib killed Mohamud Haji Salad, a site manager for Hormuud, Somalia’s biggest telecoms company, Hormuud said.