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| Africa Horn |
| Suicide Bomber Kills Army Officers in Somalia |
| 2018-04-29 |
[AAWSAT] A jacket wallah went kaboom!in a military camp in the Somali town of Galkayo on Saturday, killing four officers, officials said, an attack claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group. The camp houses a force made up of soldiers from the country's semi-autonomous regions of 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... and 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... who have been integrated into the federal army under efforts to unite the fractured country. The dead included a military commander and two colonels, Galkayo's mayor, Hirsi Yusuf Barre, told Rooters. "The corpse count may rise," police officer Abdirahman Haji said. Shabaab’s military operation front man, Abdiasis Abu Musab, said the hard boy group killed five people in the attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |