Secretary General’s Special Representative for Somalia Condemns Assassination of Government Minister

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Nairobi, 28 July - The Secretary General's Special Representative for Somalia, Francois Lonseny Fall, has condemned the assassination of Abdallah Deerow Isaaq, Somalia's Minister for Constitutional and Federal Affairs. Mr. Isaaq was shot outside a mosque in Baidoa earlier today by unidentified gunmen. "I am apalled by this act of violence against a Minister in Somalia's Transitional Federal Institutions," Ambassador Fall said. "I offer my condolences to Mr. Deerow's family and appeal for calm in what is already a turbulent moment in Somalia's recent history."

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