Bloomberg
Monday, January 09, 2012
Somalia’s rebel al-Shabaab group accused Djiboutian
forces of shelling a mosque in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and
threatened to retaliate, Shabelle News reported.
An unspecified number of people were killed and
injured in the attack on the al-Hidaya mosque on Jan. 7, the Mogadishu-
based agency said today, citing Sheikh Mohamed Abu Abdirahman, the
representative for al-Shabaab in the Banadir region.
Djiboutian soldiers form part of the African
Union Mission in Somalia, which has almost 10,000 peacekeepers in the
Horn of Africa country. The mission said in an e-mailed statement on
Jan. 8 that it was investigating the incident in which a cleric was
killed and “several” other people were injured.