Somalia

A senior government official was assassinated after he left a mosque in the in Yaqshid district on Saturday night. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unhurt from a mortar attack by Islamist insurgents on his official residence in Mogadishu. Yemen’s ambassador to Somalia Ahmed Omar denied reports that he was nearly assassinated in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday.

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