A graduation ceremony in Mogadishu, capital of the divided, war-torn nation of Somalia, was the target of a suicide-bomb attack today that killed at least 19 people, including the country’s higher-education minister, according to the BBC. Dozens of students and several hundred others had gathered for the ceremony for Benadir University, which was established in 2002 to train doctors to replace those who had fled or been killed in the civil war between the United Nations-backed government and Islamic militants.
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