MEDIA ALERT: Deadliest terrorist attack in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – A car bomb killed more than 70 people on Tuesday, October 4 in Somalia’s capital.
- A suicide bomber drove a truck filled with explosives in front of the Ministry of Education in an attempt to make it through a government compound that housed four ministries.
- Most of those who perished were university students and their parents More than 90 people were hospitalized at Mogadishu’s Medina hospital after the explosion.
- Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group al-Shabab claims responsibility for carrying out the deadly act.
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Analysts available for comment:
Bruno Schiemsky is the former coordinator of the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia. He is currently based in Nairobi, Kenya, as a security consultant. He has had over eighteen years of progressive management experience in conflict and post-conflict countries within Africa.
CONTACT: bruno.schiemsky@theglobalexperts.org
Location: West Africa
Languages: English; Flemish; French; German
Sabine Machenheimer is the Sub-Saharan Africa Analyst for IHS Janes. She writes and edits for Janes Sentinel, Janes Intelligence Review, Janes Intelligence Weekly and Janes Country Risk Daily Report. She is available to give analysis and interviews on all dimensions of politics and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa.
CONTACT: sabine.machenheimer@theglobalexperts.org
Location: West Europe
Language: English
Afyare A. Elmi, Ph.D. is a Somali-Canadian political scientist. He teaches international politics at the Qatar University’s International Affairs Department. He is specialized in international security, conflict and peace-building, political Islam and African security and development.
CONTACT: a.abdielmi@globalexpertfinder.org
Location: Middle East
Languages: English; Somali
Will Hartley is the Editor of IHS Jane’s Terrorism & Insurgency Center (JTIC). He is available to give analysis and interviews on terrorist organizations, insurgency, active non-state armed groups, and major terrorist activity.
CONTACT: will.hartley@theglobalexperts.org
Location: North America
Language: English
Catherine Besteman, Ph.D. is a professor of anthropology and African studies at Colby University. Her teaching interests focus on the roots of violent conflict and the forces that sustain inequality and produce poverty in Africa. She is the author of Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence and the Legacy of Slavery, The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War, and Violence: A Reader.
CONTACT: catherine.besteman@theglobalexperts.org
Location: North America
Language: English
Sarjoh Bah is a Senior Fellow and Program Coordinator of African Security Institutions, at New York Universitys Center on International Cooperation. He is a leading authority on security cooperation in Africa with a particular focus on the African Union. He has commented frequently on the situation in Somalia.
CONTACT: asarjoh.bah@theglobalexperts.org
Location: North America
Language: English
Roland Marchal, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at Sciences-Po in Paris. He is a specialist on the economics and politics of conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.
CONTACT: roland.marchal@theglobalexperts.org
Location: West Europe
Languages: English; French; Italian
J. Peter Pham, Ph.D. is the Director of the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. Dr. Pham primarily studies international relations and strategic issues, with particular concentrations on U.S. foreign and defense policy, African politics and security, terrorism and political violence, and religion and global affairs. He has served on the Senior Advisory Group of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) since its creation.
CONTACT: jpeter.pham@theglobalexperts.org
Location: North America
Languages: English; French; Italian
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos is a specialist on armed conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. He is a graduate of the Institute of Policy Studies in Paris, where he teaches and is a researcher at the Institute of Development Research.
CONTACT: marc.perouse@theglobalexperts.org
Location: West Europe
Languages: English; French
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