Al Shabaab received reinforcements from Afmadow and Kismayo but the counterattack failed.
Students at Compit are young people fleeing from war torn areas in Somalia from such places like Mogadishu, Kismayo, Bardera, Beled Haawo, Belet wayne and other large towns in the south of the country where much of the population of Somalia once lived.
The Fall of Kismayo occurred on January 1, 2007, when the troops of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Ethiopian forces entered the Somali city of Kismayo unopposed.
He returned to Somalia to serve his country, and was nominated to be Mayor of Kismayo in early 1996, a position which he served in until 2000.
The stoning of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was a public execution carried out by the Al-Shabaab militant group on October 27, 2008 in the southern port town of Kismayo, Somalia.
On January 10, he returned to Kismayo after touring to the front of the Battle of Ras Kamboni and spoke of 50 killed in the attacks.