RAIDERS ON THE HORN
Chaos abides.
A district head of the National Security Agency (NSA), Ahmed Mohamed Odaysge, was shot in Hamarweyne in southern Mogadishu where he led operations to enforce law and order.
His office confirmed the killing and vowed to pursue the gunmen who fled after the attack.
“We are investigating the killing and, as of now, we are treating it as a political assassination,” said a district official, who declined to be named.
A former top NSA official was also killed late on Tuesday in another shooting. Mohamed Muhamoud Jumale, an official in the former regime of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, ousted in 1991.
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The Somali government recently revived the NSA, a secret agency dreaded during Barre’s regime, to help combat insurgents who have vowed to crush efforts to restore stability in the country. Article
Putting a face on the displaced:
Ambiya Abdi Hussein, a mother of seven, was first displaced from her home in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia at the height of the 1992 civil war. After 15 years in a camp in Mogadishu, she and her family, like hundreds of thousands of others, have been displaced again. After fighting broke out between Ethiopian-backed government forces and insurgents in Mogadishu, Hussein, 35, and the children moved to the Buulo Jawaan camp in south Galkayo, 700km north of Mogadishu, where they have lived for the past three months.
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The children, aged between two and 16, do not go to school. Hussein said: “My dream is for all them to go to school and learn, so they don’t live the way I live.”
She has hopes of returning to her home in Lower Shabelle, where she had a farm and “lived much better than this … But first we need peace,” she said. “Wherever I can find peace and my children can find education that is where I will call home.” Article
