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Somalia News. Selectedwisdom.com. Terror Free Somalia Foundation. Shabaab in Somalia publicly fractures & pressures al Qaeda | Selected Wisdom. Well, I’ve been waiting for a year to see the outcome of Shabaab’s “Game of Thrones” and today a surprising public fracture emerged on the aljihad.com website. Ibrahim al-Afghani, a once senior leader of al Shabaab, close associate of Ahmed Godane and fellow member of Godane’s Isaaq clan, posted a public and direct call to Ayman al-Zawahiri asking him to intervene in Somalia and remove Godane as leader of al Shabaab. Ibrahim al-Afghani’s public posting finally discloses the fractures I’ve been discussing for the past year. Omar Hammami, the American public relations arm for Team Robow (maybe should be renamed Task Force Robow/Aweys/Afghani), has provided ten reasons for Afghani’s public denouncement of Godane – a major development in Somalia. These are quotes from Omar’s tweets so if you don’t like the language, complain to Omar on Twitter.

“Dr. Interesting that Omar wrote these tweets in English. “Scenario #1: Godane kills off old AQ members & Robow affiliated foreign fighters” The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta. English | Bar-kulan. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has said peace is the key to the country’s road to recovery. Speaking during the opening ceremony of the three days national conference on peace and security in Mogadishu the president highlighted the different environment in which the country’s security has passed.

In his long speech the president stressed the need [...] The self declared state of Somali Land administration have arrested three journalists operating in in Las-anod. The three are Abdikhani Goox of Som Sat TV and Ali Yussuf and Abdirashid Aydid who are freelance journalists. Reports say the three were arrested as they were on their daily professional activity however the deputy police commission in [...]

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is expected to open national peace and security conference scheduled to open today in the capital Mogadishu. Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has received credentials from the new Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ambassador to Somalia. Critical Threats | Critical Threats. SomaliaReport.