SOMALIA: AL-SHABAB EXECUTE TWO MEN

Somalia's most powerful Islamist rebel group al-Shabab executed two men, accusing them to be spies for the country's federal government forces, in a southern seaport city of Barawe.
The victims identified as Abdinasir Abdi Elmi, 17, and his co-accused Abdikadir Dahir Isman, 20, were tied to a pole at the centre of the town while in masked, before they were finally shot to dead.
The town is in the region of Lower Shabelle which its capital, Merca, was seized a week ago by Somali armed forces with a help of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeeping soldiers after Al-Qaeda linked insurgent fighters retreated there.
A huge crowd of the residents from all walks of life flocked the scene of the incident as this corporal punishment is always characterized by a use of loud speakers to call population to come out of their houses or business premises to watch the death sentence.
A pro-rebel judge told the crowd the two men involved in their detective duty for government soldiers during which they were seized in Afgoye, a corridor town to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, according to an eye witness. He also added the accused had been under their detention for sometime so as to confirm the case against them.