Friday May 5, 2017
Somalia’s Auditor General Nur Farah was fired on Thursday after his security guards shot dead a cabinet minister.Abbas Siraj, the 31-year-old Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, was killed after the security detail opened fire on his car after mistaking him for a militant near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Wednesday.Thursday’s decision to fire Farah was taken behind a closed-door meeting of the country’s cabinet.Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed earlier directed an investigation into the killing.