Somali Who Died in Mogadishu Blast Had Sought Refuge Abroad

Aline Barros, Nur Hassan Nur and Carol Guensburg contributed to this report, which originated in VOA’s Somali service. In the end, Ahmed Salah Hassan could not escape the violence he repeatedly tried to flee. The Somali native, who’d sought refuge from the Horn of Africa country’s armed conflict in South Africa and then in the United States, was among 12 people killed by a car bomb that exploded outside a restaurant on Mogadishu’s busy Maka Al-Mukarama road last Thursday. Failed bid...

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