Al Shabaab militants targeted Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a bomb attack on his motorcade as it was traveling through the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the Islamist group said. Two senior government and military officials told Reuters that Mohamud was safe following the attack,

Al Shabaab militants targeted Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a bomb attack on his motorcade as it travelled through the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday.

Somalia and the African Union (AU) have strongly denounced a terrorist attack on President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s convoy in Mogadishu on Tuesday. The car bomb explosion targeted the president as he traveled to the frontlines in Hirshabelle to support military efforts against al-Shabab.