![]() His government recently recaptured a number of strategic territories. The president denounced the killings as revenge for the victories his new government has scored in what he describes as a “total war” against the jihadists. One of the targets was the education ministry, which is headed by Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir, Mohamud’s closest friend in politics (he survived the attack). Just days after this interview, the jihadists carried out twin car bombings in Mogadishu that killed at least 100 people. Re-elected in May, Mohamud is, according to his own intelligence agency, al-Shabaab’s “No 1 target” once more. One of the fighters got to within 100 metres of the president before being shot dead. On another occasion, terrorists belonging to al-Shabaab, al-Qaida’s richest and most lethal affiliate, which controls much of the country, blew up a car at the gates of Villa Somalia. Almost immediately after his election Mohamud survived an assassination attempt at a hotel where he was meeting Kenya’s foreign minister. His first government, between 20, was the country’s first elected, non-interim administration since 1991, the year Somalia’s long-ruling military dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre, was overthrown in a coup. Mohamud has the unique distinction of having done it twice. Photograph: Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP/Getty Images Debris in the streets of Mogadishu after a car bombing targeted the education ministry on 29 October 2022. ![]()
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