Suicide Bombing at Somalia Army Camp Kills at Least 7<br />By HUSSEIN MOHAMEDAPRIL 10, 2017<br />MOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide bomber wearing a Somali Army officer’s uniform blew himself up inside a military training camp<br />in Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least seven soldiers, including senior officers, and wounding 15 others, officials said.<br />At least 10 people were killed in the city on Sunday, when a suicide bomber tried to ram a vehicle into a convoy carrying<br />the new army commander, Gen. Ahmed Mohamed Jimale, outside the Defense Ministry, where he had taken the oath of office.<br />The Shabab have intensified their attacks against the government since Somalia’s new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, also known as Farmajo, declared war on the group<br />and replaced the leaders of the army, the police and international intelligence, as well as the mayor of Mogadishu, the country’s capital.<br />Abdikamil Moalim Shukri said that The bomber was disguised as a Somali Army officer and blew himself up,<br />Many analysts contend that President Mohamed had rushed to declare the campaign against the Shabab<br />before the newly installed army commanders agreed to coordinate plans and available resources.<br />In a separate episode earlier on Monday, an employee of the Somali Education Ministry was killed when<br />a bomb thought to have been attached to his car exploded in the Hamar Weyne district of Mogadishu.
