Addis Ababa, June 11 (WIC) - Somalia’s Interior Minister Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan died from wounds suffered after an explosion at his house in the capital Mogadishu on Friday, the African Union peacekeepers AMISOM said.”Unfortunately the minister has just passed away,” Paddy Ankunda, the AMISOM spokesman told Reuters.”We condemn the barbaric acts in the strongest terms. The forces of peace will have their way.”The minister, Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan, was wounded after a female suicide bomber attacked his house, the minister’s driver, police and African Union troops said.Relatives added the suicide bomber was also a close relative to the minister, but this could not be independently confirmed.

Somalia has been without an effective central government since the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991