Despite the recent setbacks Somalia’s militant Islamist group al-Shabab has suffered on the battlefield, it has shown that it still has the capacity to strike in the heart of the capital, Mogadishu.
A suicide bomber killed more than 75 people after detonating a truck laden with explosives outside government buildings in Kilometre Four (K4) – a busy crossroads in central Mogadishu.
Among the dead and injured were many students waiting to see if they had gained a scholarship to study in Turkey.
“The scale of the attack has been a surprise to everybody,” says Matt Bryden, a UN investigator on al-Shabab.
