| Conflict: | 2015 Battle of Janale |
| Partof: | the War in Somalia |
| Date: | 1 September 2015 |
| Place: | Janale, Lower Shebelle, Somalia |
| Map Type: | Somalia#Africa |
| Map Relief: | yes |
| Combatant1: | Al-Shabaab |
| Combatant2: | AMISOM Uganda |
| Commander1: | Abdullah Ahmed Omar[1] |
| Commander2: | Unknown |
| Units1: | Al-Shabaab
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| Units2: | UPDF |
| Strength1: | dozens of |
| Strength2: | unknown |
| Casualties1: | 5 killed (Al-Shabbab claim) |
| Casualties2: | 70 killed (Al-Shabbab claim)[2] 50 killed 50 missing (Western officials claim) |
The Battle of Janale took place on September 1st 2015, when Al-Shabaab militants stormed an African Union military camp manned by Ugandan forces in the town of Janale, Lower Shabelle.
It began after an Al Shabaab suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into the perimeter of the base, which exploded at the front of the base. Al Shabaab later named the suicide bomber in a propaganda video as Abdullah Ahmed Omar, a former Somali soldier who defected to Al Shabaab in 2014.[3] Following that, a team of heavily armed fighters entered the breach and attacked the troops inside.[4] The attack was launched to commemorate one anniversary after the group's former leader Ahmed Abdi Godane's death, who was killed in a U.S. drone airstrike in the previous year.[5]