MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Al Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a government official in Mogadishu on Wednesday and, in a separate attack, bombed an African Union troop convoy outside the Somali capital, police and a spokesman for the group said.
Abdifatah Barre, the deputy district commissioner of Mogadishu’s Wadajir district, was shot dead in his car.
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