A Twin powerful blast on Wednesday afternoon rocked the heart of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, a very close location to a hotel where the country’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was holding a news briefing, after two days when he was elected into the office through parliamentary voting for the next four years, the latest the UN-backed plan to fix a full fledged central government to Somalia.
The attacks said to be carried out by suicide bombers might had a target to blow up Jazeera Hotel Palace ,near the main airport , in one of the safest sections of the war ravaged capital , however, the president along with his home and foreign dignitaries included the neighboring country of Kenya’s foreign minster Sam Ogeri was unharmed. The Horn of Africa nation lost its last central government in 1991 when the former president Mohamed Siyad Barre rule toppled. Since then the country saw a string of such a similar danger, Mogadishu seems to be most hit.
The blasts reported to have left at least seven people dead and wounded several others including security officers. Somalia’s soldiers man the streets of their country’s cities with help of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeeping troops today.
An eyewitness saw clots of blood, and maimed human bodies dotted outside the hotel.
Kenya is one of African nations that have troops on the soil of Somalia to drive out the Islamist group al-shabab who are waging an insurgency to make Somalia an Islamic state with a strict interpretation of Sharia law.
Somalis regarded Mohamud’s Monday victory as the last and final chance to end the anarchy in their country. But The Islamists ever since have been branding the country’s every elected leader as the western puppet through whom Somalia would lose its economic resources ,with oil, gas, and fishing .
It said that the president was due to emphasize on security as his priority one in the meeting when the blasts echo was heard at some miles away from the epicenter. And he said the attacks would not stop him accomplish his mission to repair Somalia again.
“I want to tell the citizens of Somalia that what happened today here will not avert us from our path of restoring peace and stability to our nation, Said the new academic leader.