The assassination of Ahlu Sunna *(suffi) cleric condemned

MOGADISHU --The different parts of the society in Galkacyo, the provincial capital of Mudug region in central Somalia have strongly condemned Friday the assassination of Sheik Ali Afyare, who was killed in the city on Thursday by habrgidir-wahabi Terrorist gunmen. Sheik Ali Afyare, the assassinated cleric was a prominent religious man from Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca Islamist aka.. siffi organization. Witnesses said three masked gunman shot the sheik and they immediately fled on foot from the scene to habar-gidir part of town.. south galkacay. there has been a power struggle between Islamist factions in recent months in central Somalia. Clerics, clan elders, and the human rights organizations in Galkacyo city condemned the assassination of the late sheik and described as a “brutal” action. GalkacyoThey have called for the administration in the city to do something about the security in the city. Ahlu Sunna Waljamca is a moderate religious organization that does not have a political ambition and supports the new government led president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed while al-Shabaab vowed to keep on fighting against the new government. He is the third cleric from Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca killed in Somalia. Sheik Hussein and Sheik Elbur were killed in Ealasha town outside Mogadishu last month.