MOGADISHU – Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents ambushed
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Tuesday, the militants said, claiming to
have destroyed vehicles with rocket-propelled grenades.
“We
ambushed a convoy that was escorting the self-appointed Somali
president,” Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP.
The
ambush took place near the small settlement of Buffow, close to the port
of Merka, a former Shebab stronghold captured one year ago around 100
kilometres (60 miles) south of the capital.
“We were tracking his
(Mohamud’s) movements…the fighting is still going on,” Musab said.
There were no immediate reports of any casualties or confirmation from
Somalia’s government.
Outside the capital Mogadishu, Mohamud usually
travels in an armoured convoy under the protection of the 17,700-strong
African Union force that fights alongside the Somali army.
Shebab
fighters in May 2012 ambushed the convoy of Mohamud’s predecessor,
Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, but the president escaped unharmed.
Somalia’s
weak central government, selected in a UN-backed process in August
2012, has made steps forward in Mogadishu but has little influence
outside the capital.
The new government was the first to be given
global recognition since the collapse of Somalia’s hardline regime in
1991.
But the authorities have been dealt a number of setbacks in
recent months, including a string of Shebab attacks, accusations of rape
against the army and AU soldiers and a pull-out by aid workers because
of a wave of kidnappings and killings.
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