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Local residents say the town has seen in the past such shelling launched from Al-Shabaab-held areas located on the outskirts of the administrative capital of Galmudug due to the failure in the security.

Abdullahi Hassan, a Somali police officer in the city confirmed to KON that the militants breached the gate with a car bomb to enter the Afrik hotel located along with the city’s Aden Abdulle International airport.

The talks between Swan and Madobe covered the wider political situation in Somalia, including the deadlock over elections amid ongoing efforts to bring the parties together to agree on a way forward.

As his mandate expires on February 8, Farmajo faces blames that he has bypassed the electoral law by stacking the poll committee with his allies. The biased team set to manage the parliamentary elections.

Saturday’s meeting at Villa Somalia came hours after the US urged the country’s political leaders to resolve outstanding issues to enable the peaceful #elections that the Somali people deserve.

The bill, which now becomes an Act, was issued as an ordinance to defer grievances of 3 million people who dwell in Mogadishu who have lacked their fundamental rights granted by the Provisional Constitution.

During their stay, the ministers are expected to visit troops stationed in the town and receive reports on the situation in Gedo and areas near the Kenyan border from the army commanders there, per sources.

Moments later, a second explosion rocked Diinsoor town, a former Al-Shabaab stronghold in the Bay region under Somalia’s Southwest state, targeting a small teashop frequented by Somali government soldiers.

Speaking to the reporters in Mogadishu on Wednesday, Somalia’s information minister Osman Dubbe said the report came as a shock to Farmajo administration, adding it leaves a stain on Somali-Djibouti ties.

The officials are undergoing interrogation at police custody and they will be arraigned in court shortly to face the charges brought against them, according to the minister.

The children’s mother sustained wounds in the shelling while the father escaped unharmed, according to the local residents, who spoke to KON by phone after the fighting subsided early on Monday morning.

Gedo region has been the focal point of the conflict between Jubaland led by Ahmed Madobe a close ally of Kenya and President Farmajo whose clan Marehan makes the majority of the local population.