Mogadishu(Sunatimes) The African union peacekeepers in Mogadishu
are saying that its troops are on high alert after TFG's minister of interior
affairs was murdered in a brutal suicide bomb on last Friday.
A spokesman for the
African union peacekeepers known as AMISOM backing Somalia's
transitional federal fragile government says his forces are on high alert a day
after a suspected female suicide bomber killed the country's interior minister.
Major Paddy Ankunda said Saturday the AU force is on alert after AL-Qaeda linked
militants of al-Shabab vowed to carry out "brazen attacks deep inside
enemy territory."
Interior
Minister Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan was killed on Friday in an
explosion in his home which is believed of being carrying out a female person
who were detonated in his room and died as a result of the injury ,
The female bomber was
returned to the country from South Africa according to the Abdi's brother
Wehlie who spoke to the press in Mogadishu to day confirming the lady was a
member of their relatives who may not be considered as doing like this crime,
Al-Shabab militants
battling Somalia's fragile government use suicide bombers to demoralize the
government and their African backers.
Somalia has not had an
effective government for two decades.
By Hawo Abdulle
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Somalia: high alert after minister Suicide attack
Al-Shabab militants battling Somalia's fragile government use suicide bombers to demoralize the government and their African backers.