Somali president says death toll to rise further after Saturday’s twin bombings that targeted the education ministry. At least 100 people have been killed and 300 wounded in two car bomb explosions in the capital Mogadishu, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said. The first explosion hit the ministry; then the second blast occurred as ambulances arrived and people gathered to …
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali authorities on Sunday ended an attack by Islamic extremists that left 21 people dead and over 110 wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital. It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to contain the fighters who had stormed Mogadishu’s Hayat Hotel on Friday evening in an assault that started with loud explosions. Al-Shabab …
