Horn of Africa Terror Attack Dims Hope for Peace
By BBC Africa Eye
Published December 8, 2019
A Somali journalist who for years has been searching for an end to the cycle of violence which has ripped his country apart for nearly three decades since 1991 following the overthrow of the government of the late Mohamed Siad Barre, returns to report on his country for the world.
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The BBC Africa Eye investigative team journalist, Jamal Osman, believed in Kismayo in the self-governing Jubbaland, southern Somalia–that was meant to be a safe haven, a place where children could grow up in peace away from Somalia’s civil war, a place which offered up hope of a secure and peaceful future–he had finally found the answers. But a horrific Al Shabab terror attack on the Madina Hotel in July 2019 that left twenty-six dead and fifty-six injured, shattered that illusion.
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Jamal Osman travels to Kismayo to meet with soldiers from the elite Jubbaland army unit known as Rohan (‘unseen’) made up of former Al Shabab fighters, to find out what made them turn against their former comrades.
My Bloody Country, Osman’s report for BBC Africa Eye, is aired on various television networks across Africa.
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