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Somalia: Mogadishu Mayor Dies After Al-Shabaab Attack
DW, 1 August 2019
Mogadishu mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman has died in a Qatari clinic, a week after al-Shahab extremists targeted his office. The former London councilor becomes the seventh victim of… Read more »
Mogadishu Mayor Dies After Al-Shabaab Attack
Mogadishu mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman has died in a Qatari clinic, a week after al-Shahaab extremists targeted his office. Osman was airlifted to Doha after a female suicide bomber managed to elude security checks and enter the mayor's office on July 24, killing six people and wounding Osman.
Mayor of Mogadishu Abdirahman Omar Osman at the opening of the Mogadishu Book Fair in Somalia's capital on August 15, 2018.
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The mayor of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is to be flown to Turkey for treatment along with several others injured in a suicide attack, officials have told Read more »
