Al Shabaab Blamed In Assassination Of Puntland Official. Somali PM on country's 'limited challenge to al-Qaeda'

Bosaso, Puntland, Somalia (AHN) - Masked men armed with pistols gunned down a Puntland court official on Monday in Bosaso, Somalia's Puntland commercial town, officials and witnesses said.
Abdullahi Salah Shirwa', Puntland's high court attorney, was killed after sundown at the center of the port town of Bosaso, about 1,500 kilometers north of Somalia's capital Mogadishu. He was recently nominated to the position, according to authorities

Witnesses said the assailants escaped from the scene shortly after the murder. Mohamed Hassan, Puntland's attorney general, told the media that security forces were conducting search operations, adding that the perpetrators would be arrested and brought to justice.Hassan said that Al Shabaab militants fighting in southern Somalia had masterminded the assassination. He ruled out the murder as being engineered by pirates.Al Shabaab did not release any comments about the charge.Insecurity and violence in parts of Puntland have reportedly been rampant in the last few months. Puntland and Somaliland are the most stable areas in Somalia.

Somali PM on country's 'limited challenge to al-Qaeda'

 

The Somali prime minister says his government is "the most capable... government that has been assembled" in the country, but it still needs international support if it is to defeat jihadist fighters linked to al-Qaeda.
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed told Andrew Harding he would like to "solve the problems ahead" for his country, but "without international support... we will have limited capabilities to challenge al-Qaeda". bbc

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