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| Somalia's Leader Taken to Presidential Complex after Attack |
| 2012-09-14 |
| [An Nahar] Somalia's newly elected president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been moved to the secure presidential compound following an liquidation bid at his hotel, officials said Thursday. Hassan was unharmed after two blasts went off Wednesday outside the hotel where he had been meeting a visiting Kenyan delegation, but three soldiers were killed in what appeared to be an attack by multiple jacket wallahs. A front man for the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia, Colonel Ali Houmed, said the new head of state who was elected Monday is now staying at Villa Somalia, which was still home to outgoing president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. Western observers had said they were surprised the new president was housed in a hotel -- even if it was just a few hundred meters from the capital's well-protected airport, which is AMISOM's main base -- rather than at Villa Somalia. |
| Posted by:Fred |