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Cape Town \u2013 Somali students are flocking to hospitals in their numbers to donate basic essentials as well as much-needed blood to the victims of a twin bombing in the country\u2019s capital, this past weekend.<\/p>\n
The number of people killed by two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia\u2019s capital Mogadishu has risen to at least 120 people, the health department said on Monday, citing Africanews.<\/p>\n
The attacks are Somalia\u2019s deadliest since a truck bomb killed more than 500 people at the same location five years ago.<\/p>\n
Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for Saturday\u2019s blasts, the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n
President Sheikh said that the cruel and cowardly terrorist attack on innocent people by the morally bankrupt and criminal Al-Shabaab group cannot discourage, but will further strengthen Somalia\u2019s resolve to defeat them once and for all, the president tweeted after the attack.<\/p>\n
He ended by saying that his government and brave people will continue to defend Somalia against evil.<\/p>\n
Somalia\u2019s blood shortage<\/strong><\/p>\n The United Nations and Health Organization announced in August that it is in the process to build Somalia\u2019s first national blood bank.<\/p>\n The UN said that access to safe blood supply and transfusion services in Somalia is a challenge, hindered by blood shortages and a lack of storage capacity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cape Town \u2013 Somali students are flocking to hospitals in their numbers to donate basic essentials as well as much-needed blood to the victims of a twin bombing in the country\u2019s capital, this past weekend. The number of people killed by two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia\u2019s capital Mogadishu has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}