Somalias president says his country will not be demoralised after a bomb attack kills more than 70 people. Translation you will never succeed in discouraging the Somali People and their government and you will never stop us from achieving our goals in developing and rebuilding our country. Democratic president ial contender joe biden says theres no legal basis to force him to testify at Donald Trumps impeachment trial. Hello and welcome to bbc news. The president of somalia has blamed al sha baab militants for a deadly bomb attack but said they wouldnt succeed in demoralising the Somali People. 70 people died and many more were injured in the capital mogadishu. Our africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports moments after the blast, an eyewitness films the scene. Smoke still billowing from a vehicle, the remains of what is thought to have been a massive car bomb. Shocked civilians move in to look for survivors. The attack was timed to catch the morning rush hour in mogadishu. Many stud
The president of somalia has blamed al shabaab militants for a deadly bomb attack that killed about 70 people. But Mohamed Abdullahi farmajo said they wouldnt succeed in demoralising the somali people. The explosion took place at a security checkpoint in the south west of the capital mogadishu. Its being reported that at least 16 of those killed were university students. Our africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports. Moments after the blast, an eyewitness films the scene. Smoke still billowing from a vehicle, the remains of what is thought to have been a massive car bomb. Shocked civilians move in to look for survivors. The attack was timed to catch the morning rush hour in mogadishu. Many students had been heading to classes. Dozens were killed when the bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the somali capital. Attacks like this are not unusual here, but they are seldom so deadly. This man said the blast caught him as he was getting out of a minibus heading to work, his leg injured
A struggle to sell tickets. Welcome to the program a prisoner swap is under way in Eastern Ukraine between Government Forces and pro russia separatists the 2nd major release in 3 months follows ukraine and russia agreeing to ease tension between them its 5 years since Russian Troops and extend the Crimean Peninsula and is under god freud is live for us in moscow what stage are we in terms of the prisoner swap as we speak. Well at this point in the 1st phase of this prisoner swap has apparently ended and that is that a look separatist of the lugansk region handed all were to ukraine a 25 ukrainians that they have kept captive and the ukrainian side handed over an unknown number of people to separate russian backed separatist of the lugansk region what comes now is the same thing happening with representatives of the region separatists from the dont yet region and what we could hear is that they will handle were to ukraine 55. 00 people expecting 87. 00 in return so the total of people t
Mogadishu suffers its worst attack in the years raising a question mark over transition plans are on groups making a comeback will National Institutions be able to take on more responsibility in 2020 this is inside story. Hello welcome to the show im sam is a than nearly 80 people were killed on saturday in the worst bomb attack in the somali capital in 2 years president mohammed of the law he has condemned it as he nears acts of terror hes blaming it on. The armed group was forced out of mogadishu in 2011 but still controls large parts in the southwest of the country the United States has intensified as strikes the African Union has long been on the offensive in somalia but that hasnt stopped the shabaab from carrying out deadly attacks there and in neighboring kenya and uganda this latest one has raised concerns about whether somalias forces are capable of maintaining security as African Union troops begin to withdraw well talk to our guests shortly but 1st this report from how to. C
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