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2022-02-11 Africa Horn
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Al-Shabaab strikes thrice amid elections in Somalia
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[Garowe] al-Shabaab
 ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban
...Arabic for students ...
, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
holy warriors continued with their onslaught in Somalia as the country continued with elections which the opposition had termed as "shambolic" before an agreement was reached in December last year.
In the first strike on Wednesday, the holy warriors killed four civilians in the ancient town of Barawe in the Southern part of the country, on a day when the Southwest state was holding parliamentary elections for seven seats.
The al-Shabaab media affiliates reported the attack but did not give further details thus it's not clear who they targeted in this particular raid. But the fact that it happens at the time the region is holding elections for 13 parliamentary seats speaks volumes.
Witnesses said the holy warriors fired five rounds of mortars to the town with tow hitting residential houses. The mortars landed in Sakhawadin and Dayah neighborhoods in Barawe town, leading to four deaths and multiple injuries.
The network was down the town earlier but it’s back to normal service now, another witness said. The holy warriors thrive on communication failure when attacking certain towns in the country to evade hawk-eyed Somali National Army [SNA] and AU forces.
On Wednesday, only seven Parliamentary elections took place while the contest for the remaining six will be held on Thursday according to authorities. All states are rushing to beat the deadline and analysts say there has been tremendous progress in recent weeks.
Later on Wednesday, at least four people were killed and seven others injured in a kaboom at a restaurant in northeast Somalia's commercial city of Bosaso on Wednesday afternoon.
A Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
police officer told state-run Radio Mogadishu that the bomber struck in front of a restaurant in Bosasso
...Puntland's major (maybe only) port, population about 250,000, most of them shady characters who hang around waterfront dives and carry knives and brass knuckles...
's Al Macruuf shopping center. The motive of the latest attack in Puntland State has not been established.
Locals said security forces have launched a major manhunt for the perpetrators of the latest explosion in Bosaso town which has been beset by a series of landmine and suicide kabooms including liquidations in the recent past.
No group had grabbed credit for the blast but al-Qaeda allied terror group, al-Shabaab, and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
s [ISIS] have staged such attacks in the past in Bosaso and elsewhere in Puntland State. But al-Shabaab would later on claim responsibility.
The so-called ISIS wing in Somalia has its main base in the Puntland region and has occasionally clashed with Puntland forces and al-Shabaab. There have been efforts both by the regional and federal governments to flush out the murderous Moslems. 
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