United Nations agency for refugees UNHCR has said that around nine thousand people have been displaced in the past few days by the military operations between TFG troops backed by AMISOM forces and al-Shabaab fighters in Afgoye corridor.

“Since May 22 to date the UNHCR Somalia Population Movement Tracking (PMT) system has recorded 9,200 displacements from Afgoye due to military activity in the area,” the UN agency said in a statement.

The agency stated that majority of the displaced people fled from Afgoye to the capital, Mogadishu, while others arrived in some parts of the two regions of Lower Shabelle and Lower Jubba respectively.

Meanwhile, Afgoye fallen into the hands of the joint forces last week and securing the corridor is expected to ease the humanitarian hurdles caused by al-Shabaab’s ban on international aid agencies.

Afgoye corridor is a strategic town located 30 kilometers from the capital, Mogadishu.