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The news from NISA follows the recent announcement by the Prime Minister that the assassins of Ikraan Tahliil were also behind the plot to assassinate Amino Mohamed, a member of the 10th Parliament.

About 500 civilians were killed or injured in Somalia in 2020 due to IEDs and explosive remnants of war; casualties totaled 669 in 2021, he said.

The elimination of the terrorists and foiling of the would-be-suicide car bomb attack deals a big blow to Al-Shabaab, the Al-Qaeda’s East Africa affiliate fighting in Somalia.

Strategically located by the Gulf of Aden, Somaliland’s territory of more than 3 million people broke away from Somalia in 1991 as the country collapsed into warlord-led conflict.

In a nutshell, a partnership with the U.S., as envisioned in this legislation, would provide Somaliland with the financial and military wherewithal it needs to make separation from Somalia a fait accompli. It would also lend Somaliland a mantle of legitimacy.

She does not know what climate change is but if it is something related or has contributed to current conditions, she said, it is something no one should not underestimate.

The attack came two days after the UN security council approved the mandate of a new AU mission in Somalia after the end of the AMISOM's 15-year operation.

She also visited the city of Baidoa, in the Federal Member State of South West State, where she met with its President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed ‘Laftagareen’ and other senior officials, and civil society representatives.

Images posted on social media showed flames and huge billowing clouds of smoke in the night sky over the city, the capital of the breakaway region of Somaliland.

Images posted on social media showed flames and huge billowing clouds of smoke in the night sky over the city, the capital of the breakaway region of Somaliland.

Collaboration between Mogadishu and Somalia's federal states on security would also be essential to achieve these outcomes -- trust that in some cases is nonexistent.

AMISOM, whose mandate expired on Thursday, was a peace support operation with nearly 20,000 forces on the ground mainly from Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burundi, and Djibouti.