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79 tons of acids seized in Mogadishu

The Somali authorities have announced that they have received a huge amount of sulfuric acid. In a brief message Wednesday, intelligence services said they had seized 79 tons. An item that, according to Mogadishu, was intended for the terrorist group Shebab. The smugglers have been arrested and will be brought to justice, the NISA agency said. A seizure announced three years the day after the bloody attack in October 2017, when the explosion of a truck bomb left more than 600 dead in Mogadishu. as reported from…

attack attributed to Shebab’s target army in the Mogadishu region

Shebab Islamists detained Somali soldiers a few dozen kilometers from the capital Mogadishu. The numbers vary, but we are talking about fifteen soldiers killed. This bloody attack adds to a series of bad security news for the authorities. Somali soldiers traveled in two pick-ups as they were brutally attacked by the Islamists. According to an officer quoted by Reuters, it could be retaliation a few hours after a shooting in which the army would have killed several shebabs. The area, located in the Lower Shabelle…

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