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Car Bomb Wounds Two in Central Somalia
[All Africa] An officer within the integrated security forces of Galkayo has been seriously maimed after a bomb planted under the seat of his car on Sunday evening.

The targeted man was the logistic officer of the integrated security forces of Galkayo.

Another security official was maimed in the kaboom. No group has yet grabbed credit for the boom-mobileing reported in the divided town.

In the past, al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
 carried out killings and attacks in the city, which has been the scene of festivities between Galmudug
...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth...
 and Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
 forces.
Posted by: Fred 2020-01-07
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=560373