Somalia's prime minister suspended the intelligence chief on Monday, prompting a public rebuke from the president and highlighting growing divisions at the heart of the political elite.
The suspension - triggered by a dispute over investigations into an unsolved murder - followed months of wrangling that have threatened to further destabilise a country already rived by militant attacks and clan rivalries.
Somalia's police chief called an emergency security meeting on Monday, officers told Reuters on condition of anonymity without going into further details. The government last week blamed the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab for her death, prompting scores of angry posts on social media from people who said the agency itself had been involved. Al-Shabaab denied any involvement.“It will most likely sow serious divisions within the security services and result in the type of violence we saw in April between the fragmented security forces.”
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