Alternative Africa

Top Menu

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Contact Us

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Reports
    • Africa-Observers
      • Read Reports
      • Submit a story
  • MORE
    • Health
    • News Now
    • World
    • Technology
Sign in / Join

Login

Welcome! Login in to your account
Lost your password?

Lost Password

Back to login
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Contact Us

logo

Alternative Africa

  • Home
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Politics
  • Sports
  • Reports
    • Africa-Observers
      • Read Reports
      • Submit a story
  • MORE
    • Health
    • News Now
    • World
    • Technology
  • US Pharmacist pleads guilty to intentionally sabotaging COVID vaccines

  • Men who recover from coronavirus having erectile dysfunction-Ghana Doctors

  • Mauritius joins Egypt, Seychelles to roll out mass covid vaccination

  • WHO working on accelerating the rollout of vaccines in Africa

  • Worldwide Covid cases pass 100 million with 2.15 million deaths

News NowWorld
Home›News Now›Farmajo blames al-Shabab for Mogadishu blast

Farmajo blames al-Shabab for Mogadishu blast

By alternativeafrica
October 18, 2017
547
0
Share:

Somalia’s president has blamed al-Shabab for the countriest deadliest attack, in which more than 300 people were killed.

Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo told Al Jazeera that the armed group’s “fingerprints” could be found over Saturday’s blast in the capital, Mogadishu, explaining that al-Shabab had a history of similar attacks. 

{articleGUID}

“This is their fingerprints, this is what they have done,” Farmajo said, before calling on the international community to help combat the group.

Al-Shabab has a strong presence in the south of the country.

“If they succeed here, they’ll [find it] easier to promote their crazy ideology and their political ideology to the youth in the United States and Europe,” he added.



Farmajo said al-Shabab is also a threat to the US and Europe [Jack Hill/Reuters]

Al-Shabab has not claimed responsibility for Saturday’s blast but the Somali leader had no doubt it was responsible.

“I thought they would claim, but maybe they feel that this is a huge responsibility,” Farmajo explained, referring to the scale of the atrocity.

The Somali president’s comments come as emergency workers continue to comb the rubble looking for the remains of those who died, with officials warning that some bodies might never be found. 

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow, reporting from Mogadishu, said investigators were trying to find out where the attackers procured the military grade explosives believed to have been used in the attack.

“Another focus, officials say, is whether al-Shabab had help from within the security forces,” he said.

The Somali government has been fighting al-Shabab for the best part of a decade and expelled the fighters from Mogadishu in 2011 with help from African Union soldiers.

Al-Shabab has since retreated southwards and continues to hold swathes of territory there. 

SHARE ON:
TagsBreakingNewsWorld
Previous Article

Nigerian police moves to halt incessant killings ...

Next Article

Shooting at Cape Town airport leaves two ...

0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

alternativeafrica

Related articles More from author

  • BusinessNews Now

    Ghana becomes sovereign shareholder in Africa Finance Corporation

    March 3, 2018
    By alternativeafrica
  • News Now

    Where is Nambia? President Trump ‘invents’ African country

    September 21, 2017
    By alternativeafrica
  • BusinessNews Now

    Focus on Ghana: Creating the regional financial hub

    March 19, 2018
    By alternativeafrica
  • News NowWorld

    Meet the activists fighting for Catalan ‘independence’

    October 21, 2017
    By alternativeafrica
  • News Now

    Ismaily move quickly to replace Desabre

    December 31, 2017
    By alternativeafrica
  • News Now

    A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week

    November 10, 2017
    By alternativeafrica

Leave a reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

You might be interested

  • AfricaBusinessNews Now

    Ghana begins process to criminalise unexplained wealth

  • BusinessNews Now

    Ukraine’s Nebulon to invest $2 billion in Egypt grain storage, transport: ministry

  • AfricaBusinessNews Now

    Nigeria seeks additional $461m to fix new airport terminals

Timeline

  • January 27, 2021

    US Pharmacist pleads guilty to intentionally sabotaging COVID vaccines

  • January 27, 2021

    Men who recover from coronavirus having erectile dysfunction-Ghana Doctors

  • January 27, 2021

    Mauritius joins Egypt, Seychelles to roll out mass covid vaccination

  • January 27, 2021

    WHO working on accelerating the rollout of vaccines in Africa

  • January 27, 2021

    Worldwide Covid cases pass 100 million with 2.15 million deaths

  • Popular

  • Comments

  • Lagos govt confirms first case of deadly coronavirus infection in Nigeria

    By alternativeafrica
    February 28, 2020
  • Keynote Address of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at 2018 Oxford Africa Conference

    By PSJ Africa
    May 14, 2018
  • Morocco begins regional integration by connecting Casablanca Airport with High Speed Train

    By alternativeafrica
    January 4, 2020
  • Kenyan govt pressure Facebook for data on Kenyan users

    By alternativeafrica
    November 20, 2019
  • Nigeria: 32,000 capacity Lagos rice mill to start production in 2020

    By alternativeafrica
    December 23, 2019
  • The return of fortress conservation: why excluding people means biodiversity conservation will fail – Future agricultures
    on
    October 16, 2020

    Inside the training camp of Akashinga, Zimbabwe’s armed, all-women anti-poaching rangers

    […] In parallel to ...
  • The return of fortress conservation: why excluding people means biodiversity conservation will fail - The Zimbabwean
    on
    October 12, 2020

    Inside the training camp of Akashinga, Zimbabwe’s armed, all-women anti-poaching rangers

    […] In parallel to ...
  • Ethiopia joins Africa's Artificial Intelligence revolution | Alternative Africa
    on
    October 2, 2020

    Spending on Artificial Intelligence Systems in Africa, Middle East to top $374 million in 2020

    […] Many African countries ...
  • The 5 most popular Africans 2020
    on
    September 25, 2020

    Celebrating Congolese doctor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the man behind breakthrough of Ebola cure

    […] Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe ...
  • Millitants in Central Mali Set Jail Ablaze in Attack Killing Two | taktik(z) GDI (Government Defense ...
    on
    August 11, 2020

    Fifteen gendarmes killed in another attack on Mali camp

    […] attack fol­lowed a January ...
AlternativeAfrica.com is an independent Pan African News Website dedicated primarily to influencing the negative narratives about Africa. We hope to do this by focusing and showcasing the many developmental strides sweeping across the continent.

Read more >>>

Contact Info

  • info@alternativeafrica.com
  • Recent

  • Popular

  • Comments

  • US Pharmacist pleads guilty to intentionally sabotaging COVID vaccines

    By alternativeafrica
    January 27, 2021
  • Men who recover from coronavirus having erectile dysfunction-Ghana Doctors

    By alternativeafrica
    January 27, 2021
  • Mauritius joins Egypt, Seychelles to roll out mass covid vaccination

    By alternativeafrica
    January 27, 2021
  • WHO working on accelerating the rollout of vaccines in Africa

    By alternativeafrica
    January 27, 2021
  • Lagos govt confirms first case of deadly coronavirus infection in Nigeria

    By alternativeafrica
    February 28, 2020
  • Keynote Address of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at 2018 Oxford Africa Conference

    By PSJ Africa
    May 14, 2018
  • Macron in Ivory Coast to launch anti-terrorism academy

    By alternativeafrica
    December 21, 2019
  • Kenyan govt pressure Facebook for data on Kenyan users

    By alternativeafrica
    November 20, 2019
  • The return of fortress conservation: why excluding people means biodiversity conservation will fail – Future agricultures
    on
    October 16, 2020

    Inside the training camp of Akashinga, Zimbabwe’s armed, all-women anti-poaching rangers

    […] In parallel to ...
  • The return of fortress conservation: why excluding people means biodiversity conservation will fail - The Zimbabwean
    on
    October 12, 2020

    Inside the training camp of Akashinga, Zimbabwe’s armed, all-women anti-poaching rangers

    […] In parallel to ...
  • Ethiopia joins Africa's Artificial Intelligence revolution | Alternative Africa
    on
    October 2, 2020

    Spending on Artificial Intelligence Systems in Africa, Middle East to top $374 million in 2020

    […] Many African countries ...
  • The 5 most popular Africans 2020
    on
    September 25, 2020

    Celebrating Congolese doctor Jean-Jacques Muyembe, the man behind breakthrough of Ebola cure

    […] Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe ...

Photostream

    Follow us

    • Home
    • About Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
    • Contact Us
    © Copyright Alternative Africa 2019. All rights reserved.