The devastating bombing will focus attention on the decade-long battle against al-Shabaab, an Islamist group, in Somalia. Doctors struggled to treat the huge numbers of seriously wounded victims on Sunday, while thousands of people queued to give blood in Mogadishu. “In our 10 year experience as the first responder in #Mogadishu, we haven’t seen anything like this,” the Aamin ambulance service tweeted. We have lost everything,” said Zainab Sharif, a mother of four who lost her husband in the attack. The British foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said the UK “condemns in the strongest terms the cowardly attacks in Mogadishu, which have claimed so many innocent lives”.

Source: The Guardian October 15, 2017 14:32 UTC