SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB MILITANTS EXECUTE WOMAN ACCUSED OF SPYING

Al-Shabaab militants executed by firing squad a woman accused of espionage, the Islamist group and a witness said. The woman, named as Ruweydo Ibrahim, was shot dead in front of a crowd of hundreds of people in the town of Jilib. Speaking to pro-al-Shabaab broadcaster Radio Andalus, an Islamist judge who wasn’t identified said an investigation revealed Ibrahim had spied for Ugandan troops, part of the African Union’s peacekeeping force in the country. “They riddled her with bullets and blood gushed from her head and chest,” Nuur Iidow, a Jilib resident, who witnessed the killing, said by phone. Ibrahim wasn’t represented by a lawyer to defend her against the charges, according to Sidow Hassan, who runs a local human rights organization.