The AP has an article at SeattlePI.com about the latest in Somalia:
A spokesman for African Union peacekeepers backing Somalia's fragile government says his forces are on high alert, a day after a suspected female suicide bomber killed the country's interior minister. Major Paddy Ankunda said the AU force is on alert after al-Qaeda-linked militants of al-Shabab vowed to carry out "brazen attacks" deep inside enemy territory.
Interior Minister Abdishakur Sheik Hassan was killed in an explosion at his home, and a female relative was suspected to be the bomber. al-Shabab militants battling Somalia's fragile government use suicide bombers to demoralize the government and their African backers. Somalia has not had an effective government for two decades.
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