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07:49, 30-Oct-2017
Somalia sacks police, security bosses after deadly hotel bombing
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The heads of Somalia’s police and national security have been sacked after a bombing at a hotel in the country’s capital claimed at least 29 lives, state radio reported on its website on Sunday.
“Somalia’s police commander General Abdihakin Dahir Saiid and director general of the National Intelligence Security Agency (NISA), Abdullahi Mohamed Ali, have now been sacked after a cabinet meeting,” state radio reported, according to Reuters.
Saturday’s blasts came two weeks after more than 350 people were killed in a massive truck bombing on a busy Mogadishu street in the country’s worst-ever attack.
The al-Shabaab extremist group quickly claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack.
Al- Shabaab marked its official presence in Somalia in April 2016, staging its first attack against African Union military peacekeepers, the Council on Foreign Relations reports.
In September 2014, the United States launched a strike using drones and manned aircraft that reportedly killed 150 al-Shabaab soldiers including al-Shabaab’s leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, after which the group immediately named Ahmed Umar as his successor, the report said.
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