The Somali government announced Monday it has appointed new
police and intelligence chiefs, nearly four months after their
predecessors were sacked following the deadliest ever terror attack in
the war-torn nation.
Former deputy health minister
Hussein Osman Hussein has been named head of Somalia's intelligence
service, while deputy head of police Bashir Abdi Mohamed has been
promoted to police chief, in a country that faces frequent attacks by
Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab militants.
Their
predecessors were sacked on October 29, a day after an attack that left
27 people dead, and just two weeks after 512 people were murdered in a
truck bombing in Mogadishu on October 14.
No group ever
claimed responsibility for the truck bombing, but the authorities have
no doubt the Shabaab was behind Somalia's worst-ever attack.
The
Shabaab lost its foothold in Mogadishu in 2011, but has continued its
fight and still controls large swathes of the countryside.
Al-Shabaab
have been trying since 2007 to overthrow the Somali government, which
has the support of the international community.
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