MOGADISHU --- Blasts rang out on Sunday in the Mogadishu airport area where parliament was meeting to choose Somalia's new president in a vote essential to keep foreign aid coming to the impoverished nation tortured by three decades of civil war. Half a dozen residents and a Reuters reporter heard what sounded like mortar shells. Somalis are used to frequent attacks on state institutions from Islamist insurgents. "I counted three big sounds of mortar shells landing in the direction of the airport. We are shocked to hear those sounds of mortars when Mogadishu is under a complete curfew. Who is firing them?" said one of the residents, Halima Ibrahim. There was no immediate wor...
Keep on reading: Explosions heard as Somalia’s presidential vote underway
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