A Somali official was on December 23, 2015 publicly executed by the Al Shabaab firing squad.

Osman Ma’ani, the Commissioner of Marerey Township in Lower Shabelle region was killed at Barire settlement, about 55 km southwest of Mogadishu.

Hundreds of the area residents were invited to witness the execution of Mr Ma’ani alongside an officer belonging to the Somali National Army whose name was not made public.

Jihadists belonging to the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab group fired rounds on the official and the army officer. Both were tied on poles.

A sheikh representing the Al-Shabaab court told the crowd that Ma’ani and an accompanying officer were seized by militants in an undisclosed zone in Lower Shabelle region.

“The fate of those who oppose our jihadist crusade will end up like this,” remarked the group's judge.

He added, “It is not the first time and is not going to be the last time we punish anti-jihad elements.”

Meanwhile, reports from Lower Juba region indicated that war planes carried out airstrikes in rural areas next to Kismayu town, 500 km south of Mogadishu, on December 23.

According to local media, there were airstrikes at a place called Berhani, about 45 km west of the port town of Kismayu.

Some sources say that up to 7 persons died during the bombardment.

Other sources confirmed that allied forces composed of the local Jubaland State and the Kenyan troops serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) carried out an operation to seize Berhani Area.

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Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) At least three people were killed and seven wounded Saturday when a car packed with explosives exploded outside a shopping mall in Somalia's capital, a senior police official said.

Police Col. Ahmed Hassan said the attack apparently was aimed at Hussein Wehliye Irfo, the governor of central Somalia's Galgaduud region. The explosions happened a few meters from his convoy on Makka Al Mukarama Street in Mogadishu.

Irfo escaped the blast unharmed, according to Hassan.


Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the bombing, spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab said on the terrorist group's radio station.

The spokesman claimed that the blasted targeted senior police and regional officials, claiming that a district commissioner was among the wounded. But police said that all those killed were civilians.

The Global Terrorism Index, an annual report crafted by the Institute for Economics and Peace, noted that Somalia has been among the 10 countries most affected by terrorism for the past eight years.

And it hasn't gotten much better, with the report indicating that in 2014 the nation on the Horn of Africa saw its highest levels of terrorism in its history, with 801 deaths tied to some 469 incidents, both of which are roughly double those of the previous year.

Al Shabaab, a militant group that wants to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, has been behind much of this violence. This includes an attack -- which features multiple bombs and gunfire -- last month at a popular hotel in Mogadishu that killed at least 15 people, according to medical and police officials.

Somalia's government has fought back, sometimes with help from the U.S. military in raids or drone strikes.

This bloodshed comes at a time of apparent turmoil within Al-Shabaab and in Africa's terrorist landscape generally.

Its leadership pledged loyalty to al Qaeda in 2012. But this fall, a high-ranking Al-Shabaab member and spiritual leader publicly sided with ISIS, a terror group that established itself in Iraq and Syria but that's made inroads elsewhere.

Journalist Omar Nor reported from Mogadishu, and CNN's Greg Botelho reported and wrote from Atlanta

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At least two people have died in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu, where a suicide bomber detonated himself inside a restaurant popular with journalists and government officials Saturday.

A VOA reporter said the incident took place at the Village restaurant, near the presidential palace in Mogadishu.

The bomber killed himself and one other person, and injured at least four others.

Several journalists fled the scene before the blast. They told VOA they had seen the bomber struggling to set off his explosive device.

The Village restaurant was the scene of two previous attacks three years ago — one in September 2012, when 15 people were killed, and the second one in November of the same year, in which four people died in twin explosions near the restaurant.

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