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A fireman walks past houses destroyed in a suicide car bomb on a nearby hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, Feb, 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) ** FILE **

Somali intelligence cooperated with U.S. for al-Shabaab hit

By Abdi Guled - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 file photo, a hole is photographed in a plane operated by Daallo Airlines as it sits on the runway of the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh boarded the plane on Feb. 2 with a bomb which exploded at 11,000 feet. The blast created a hole in the fuselage of the Airbus 321, just above the wing, and Borleh was blown out, his body falling to earth and landing in the Somali town of Balad. (AP Photo, File)

Somali plane bomber was known as religious but not extremist

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016, photo, a hole is photographed in a plane operated by Daallo Airlines as it sits on the runway of the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. A gaping hole in the commercial airliner forced it to make an emergency landing at Mogadishu's international airport late Tuesday, officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo)

Somali officials start investigating blast on board plane

By Abdi Guled - Associated Press

Suspected Al-Shabab militant captured during Thursday's attack on African Union base are seen in Mogadishu, Somalia, in this Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Al-Shabab militants attack African Union base; 9 dead

By Abdi Guled - Associated Press

U.N. convoy hit by bomb blast in Mogadishu; 3 dead

By Abdi Guled - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

6 militants killed in US Somalia strike

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday, March 30, 2014, a female Somali soldier talks on her walkie-talkie outside a police station in Mogadishu, Somalia. It’s unusual to see a female in the military in traditionally conservative Somali society where women's duties are generally at home and limited to family chores, but determined women are breaking down those barriers with about 1,500 females now in the military of 20,000, according to estimates. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Female soldiers join the army ranks in Somalia

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

Mohamed Aden, a malnourished two-year-old boy, sits on his mother's lap at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Much of Somalia has seen no or erratic rains in recent months and fighting between African Union forces and the Islamic extremists of al-Shabab is cutting off food shipments to many parts of the country and discouraging farmers from planting - as a result, 50,000 children are severely malnourished, says the aid community. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Hunger in Somalia: Familiar menace could return

By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

Somali Member of Parliament Muse Sheikh Omar, center, carries a young Somali girl deportee as he helps Somalis who had been deported from Kenya to Somalia from their aircraft after it landed at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Kenya's security minister said Wednesday that 82 Somali nationals have been deported in an ongoing security crackdown following recent terror attacks in Kenya's capital and the port city of Mombasa. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Kenya deports 82 Somalis in terror crackdown

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press