MOGADISHU， Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Somali army， alongside the African Union troops， killed at least eight Al-Shabaab militants in the south-central Bay region on Tuesday.
Regional minister for militia rehabilitation in Southwest State， Hussein Hassan Mohamed， told reporters that a senior Al-Shabaab official was among those killed in the operation in Qansax-Dheere location， south of Baidoa town.
"They (the militants) attempted to make resistance， but we overpowered them and killed eight of the terrorists including a senior official whose name is Hassan Ganey，" Hassan said， adding the joint forces suffered no casualties.
The operation came a day after Al-Shabaab militants killed three government soldiers in an ambush in an area close to Baidoa town， the administrative capital of Southwest State.
Based in southern Somalia， the Al-Shabaab Islamist group carries out periodic attacks in the country.
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The support rate for Abe's cabinet, which will itself be reshuffled later today, has dropped to historic lows of late amid a string of high-profile scandals involving Abe and senior LDP party members.
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Kishida had reportedly told Abe he wanted the senior party post, with sources adding that the experience he will gain from his new position will serve him well in a leadership push in the future.
Masahiko Komura has been retained as vice president and Toshihiro Nikai as secretary general so as to ensure continuity in the party's top echelons.
Such continuity is in a bid to show a united footing when the administration has been publicly criticized as being in scandal-mired disarray, the sources said.
Komura has the ear of a number of the LDP faction's movers-and-shakers and is known to bring lawmakers with disparate opinions over contentious issues together.
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LDP Diet Affairs Committee Chairman Wataru Takeshita will now serve as head of the party's decision-making General Council and Hiroshi Moriyama, former agriculture minister, will assume Takeshita's former position in the Diet Affairs Committee.
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Of note in the selection of his new executive lineup, is the fact that Abe has assigned roles to appease all major LDP party factions.
He has achieved this by appointing the top roles to their members, with each of the five top factions now being represented by either the vice president or the four next most important posts, political watchers pointed out Thursday.
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This has been the case during Abe's tenure and in contradiction to his own "womenomics" policy of ensuring patriarchal Japan would reverse by-gone traditions and elevate women to positions of power both in politics and business.
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