Suicide Bombing at Market in Somalian Capital Kills Dozens<br />It was printed with a slogan echoing President Trump’s campaign: "Make Somalia Great Again."<br />US2SOM Amb Schwartz had a fruitful mtng w Pres Farmaajo 2day + presented the Pres with a cap "MAKE SOM GREAT AGAIN" https://t.co/rXHgpWFp<br />pic.twitter.com/EWFdrRipv3 Hussein Mohamed reported from Mogadishu, Somalia, and Jeffrey Gettleman from Nairobi, Kenya.<br />MOGADISHU, Somalia — A large explosion ripped through a busy market here on Sunday, killing at least 30 people<br />and exposing the grave security challenges that Somalia’s new president faces.<br />The Shabab have accused Mr. Mohamed of being an apostate<br />and an American "puppet." Mr. Mohamed is an American citizen and spent years in the United States, working as a contracting officer for the New York State Department of Transportation in Buffalo.<br />19, 2017<br />An unusually large bomb exploded at the center of a busy market in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and injuring others.<br />Somali security officials said the bomb had been packed into a truck<br />that a suicide bomber drove into the Kawo Godey market, near the center of Mogadishu, the capital.<br />Mr. Mohamed — best known by his nickname, Farmajo, which comes from the Italian word for cheese — was selected<br />by Somalia’s Parliament this month in an election process widely seen as staggeringly corrupt.
