At least 8 people were pronounced dead after a car bomb targeting a top police chief exploded in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday. Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked armed group fighting to overthrow Somalia’s internationally recognised government, claimed responsibility for the attack. Pan-African scholar, The National Research Fund Chair in Innovation Studies at Tshwane University of Technology and Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford; Prof Mammo Muchie, unpacks the events that took place in Somalia.
