- Title: [SW News] The Aftermath of the Curse
(see above)
- Posted by/on:[AMJ][Friday, April 6, 2001]
Minister
robbed of his vehicle in Mogadishu
BBC
Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; Apr 5, 2001
The [Somali] interim government's
minister for information, Zakariya Mahmud Abdi, was waylaid by armed
men and robbed of his car in one of Mogadishu's sprawling estates on
Tuesday [3 April] evening.
The minister was on his way back
from Hotel Ramadan and was heading to Hotel Sahafi where he stays,
when the armed men waylaid him and took his vehicle.
"I was carrying very important
documents but they didn't search us, instead they took the
vehicle", said Mr Zakariya Haji who was speaking to Qaran
newspaper on the incident.
Source: Qaran web site, Mogadishu,
in Somali 5 Apr 01
/BBC Monitoring/ © BBC.
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