24 April 2017: a Somali military court executed four people who were convicted of being Al-Shabaab members and carrying out twin bomb attacks in Baidoa which claimed lives of over eighty people. They were shot dead by a firing squad outside Baidoa town. The military court chairman Liban Ali Yarow has identified the executed defendants as Hassan Aden Mursal, Abdilatif Moalim Aden Abdirahman, Siyad Hassan Farah and Sharamad Aawaw Mohamed.
Yarow said the executed convicts are accused of being linked to Al Qaida-affiliated Al Shabaab and involving in deadly attacks in Baidoa city in February, 2016 which killed scores of people. The military court Chairman Liban Ali Yarow, said: “This execution today is an act of justice as the criminals have in the past killed dozens of people in bomb explosion.”

The EU has variously called for a ban on death penalty in Somalia including this month’s execution of five Al-Shabaab militants found guilty of killing a senior government official in Puntland in December 2016. (Source : Goobjoog News)