Journalist and Director of Somali Cable TV Abdifatah Moallim Nur (Qeys) was killed on October 16 in a suicide bomb attack at Blue Sky restaurant in the capital Mogadishu. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), in condemning the death of Moallim Nur and calls upon the Somali government to launch an investigation into the killing and to hold the perpetrators to account.
Despite past clearance and disposal exercises at the site, there have been several reports of the discovery of remnants of UXOs within and around the vicinity of the bomb blast much to the detriment of the safety and security of the inhabitants of the Cantonment and environment.
India warned that baseless, tendentious and calculatedly mischievous reports and comments about it in Pakistan’s press were not conducive to the normalisation and improvement of relations between the two countries
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