 MOGADISHU â Somaliaâs Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi said yesterday an assassination attempt against him was an act of âsabotageâ designed to undermine his lawless countryâs fledgling government.
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The United Nations and African Union also condemned the attack that killed six people on Sunday in what diplomats say was an effort to wreck the countryâs fragile peace process. âYesterdayâs action was sabotage aimed at blocking the activity of the transitional federal government,â Gedi said in a statement read for reporters after a ministerial meeting in the capital Mogadishu.
Gedi was not hurt by the blast that tore through his convoy shortly after he arrived in the anarchic city, which is largely controlled by his foes. Government aides said a landmine caused the explosion.
A committee chaired by Interior Minister Hussein Farah Aideed will be set up to investigate the blast, Gedi said.
The deputy to the UN Secretary-Generalâs Special Representative for Somalia, Francois Lonseny Fall, denounced the assassination attempt. âThese continued acts of violence are ... an assault on the peace process and on the hopes of the Somali people for an end to 1400 14 years of insecurity,â Babafemi Badejo said in a statement released in Nairobi.
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