Jubbaland president tours Al-Shabab bombed training military camp

The president of Interim Jubba Administration, Ahmed Mohamed Madoobe has toured Former Kismayo University where last Saturday Al-Shabab attacked with a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) that killed 20 soldiers and injured more than fifty others.

President Madoobe took meeting with commanders of Somali National Army and AMISOM officials in the training camp.

He condemned terror attack on the training camp and said that it will not derail efforts to defeat Al-Shabab fighters.

“Jubbaland state and AMISOM will continue with the momentum to rebuild Somali National Army and other security institutions” he said.

Madoobe was accompanied by the State’s Minister for Interior and security Mohamed Farah Warsame Darwiish and regional commissioner of Middle Jubba Abdirashid Jire Qalinle.

Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for the bombing of the training camp.

Despite being forced out of many of their strongholds, the rebels are still able to launch lethal attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere in Somalia.

Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, Al-Shabaab’s spokesman for military operations, said the group was behind the car bomb and claimed there were several casualties.

Al-Shabab has carried out several deadly attacks on Government institutions, army camps and hotels, the group has Saturday only conducted two separate suicide car attacks in Somalia, one in Mogadishu and another at a military training base in the southern port city of Kismayo that claimed lives of more than thirty people.

AMISOM and Somali National Army have been advancing to Al-Shabab controlled areas latest being Bardhere town that used to be the largest stronghold for Al-Shabab’s top officials and its foreign jihadist fighters before they fled after heavy military assault by the Somali government forces and the African Union mission in Somalia (AMISOM)troops.