Mohamed, Hussein. "In Mogadishu, Truck Bomb and Gunmen Kill at Least 23 in Hotel
Attack." The New York Times, New York Times Company, 28 Oct. 2017,
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/28/world/africa/
somalia-mogadishu-truck-bombing.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fafrica
&action=click&contentCollection=africa®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=l
atest&contentPlacement=13&pgtype=sectionfront. Accessed 4 Nov. 2017.
The article, "In Mogadishu, Truck Bomb and Gunmen Kill at Least 23 in Hotel Attack" is about the bombing outside of the Nasa-Hablod hotel and the killing of a minimum of 23 citizens. Along with the 23 people killed, there were also at least 30 others who were injured in the attack. A Mogadishu government minister and 30 other residents were able to escape safely from the hotel. Somali lawmaker, Abdinasir Garane, a police commander, and minister Madoobe Nuunow were some killed. This truck attack comes two weeks after another bomb planted in a truck killed 358 people in Mogadishu. This is the work of the Al Qaeda group, the Shabab, who admitted to the attack on the internet. This group has been losing their territory in Somalia in ten last couple of years. This article relates to our Africa unit in class because it proves one of the five myths of Africa true, that Africa is violent. Our lesson on the continent revolved around the fact that there were five stereotypes about Africa, and whether or not they were true. This piece is an example of how Africa is violent. Also, the group Al-Shabab, a terrorist group in Somalia, was mentioned multiple times in class and on our unit test on Africa.
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