Somalia’s al Shabaab says its bomber behind airline blast

February 14, 2016 | Filed under: News,News Feature | Posted by: Robel

Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents said on Saturday they were responsible for a blast that punched a hole in the fuselage of a plane last week that the government said was caused by a bomb meant to kill everyone on board.

An aircraft belonging to Daallo Airlines is parked at the Aden Abdulle international airport after making an emergency landing following an explosion inside the plane in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

The suspected suicide bomber was sucked out of the Daallo Airlines plane through a one-meter (one-yard) wide hole when the blast ripped open the pressurized cabin in flight, officials said last week.

“Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen carried out the airborne operation as a retribution for the crimes committed by the coalition of Western crusaders and their intelligence agencies against the Muslims of Somalia,” al Shabaab said in an emailed statement.

Last week, U.S. government sources said investigators suspected the Islamist militant group, which has links to al Qaeda, was responsible.

The plane made an emergency landing in the Somali capital.

Daallo’s chief executive said the bomber was meant to be on a Turkish Airlines flight that was canceled due to bad weather.

Daallo had picked up the 70 stranded Turkish Airlines passengers to fly them to Djibouti, including the suicide bomber. In total, the flight had 74 passengers.

Al Shabaab, which wants to overthrow the Somali government and impose a harsh version of Islamic law, has targeted the airport in the past. It has also attacked the Turkish embassy in Mogadishu.

Reuters

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Eritrean men ordered to marry two wives or risk jail

Activists have posted a memo allegedly by the Government of Eritrea asking men to marry at least two wives due to acute shortage of men occasioned by casualties during the civil war with Ethiopia.

In the statement written in Arabic assures of government support to the polygamous marriages.

The activists translate it thus, “Based on the law of God in polygamy, and given the circumstances in which the country is experiencing in terms of men shortage, the Eritrean department of Religious Affairs has decided on the following .”

First that every man shall marry at least two women and the man who refuses to do so shall be subjected to life imprisonment with hard labour.

“The woman who tries to prevent her husband from marrying another wife shall be punished to life imprisonment,” alleges the activists in their translation.

And Kenyans have reacted to these announcements with bemusement with some suggesting if they could change their citizenship immediately and take advantage of the new laws in the country.

“At this rate, I can see the Eritrea Government spreading new embassy outlets in Kakamega, Embu, Siaya and Busia counties to help hasten visa processing,” said one Kenyan on facebook.

“He is so so considerate of women! That’s good of him,” said another.

The Standard could not immediately authenticate the document nor the translation and it was not clear why the statement was not in the other two national languages, Tigrinya and Tigre.

The May 1998 to June 2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian war saw 150,000 soldiers killed from either sides but having a bigger impact on male population in the tiny Eritrea nation who were then just 4 million people in total

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SPLA IO high officials arrested in Ethiopia

February 6, 2016 | Filed under: News,News Feature | Posted by: Zehabesha

 

February , 06 2016

SPLA-IO high Ranking Commanders has been arrested by Ethiopia Regional Police of Gambella (ERPG) yesterday their names are as follows

1- Lt Gen.Dor Manjur Gatluak
2- Lt Gen.Thomas Mabor Dhol

the names of others Comrades who were also arrested will be publishes sooner.

Reported by SSAF spokesperson Capt. Kim Lony Gatluak

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