Al Shabaab militants targeted Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in a bomb attack on his motorcade as it travelled through the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday.

President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is the latest president to endure a defiant attack. ・Alleged attack on Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud by Al Shabaab militants ・Attack took place as the president's convoy was leaving the palace in Mogadishu ・President reportedly escaped unscathed The latest assault on an African head of state is the recent attack on Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud by of Al Shabaab militants via a bomb attack on his motorcade.

While al Shabaab regularly carries out attacks in Somalia as part of its decades-long campaign to topple the government, Tuesday's attack was the first to directly target Mohamud since 2014, during his first term in office, when they bombed a hotel where he was speaking.