{{A plane carrying the Somali president has been forced to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu after one of its engines reportedly caught fire.}}<\/p>\n
A spokesman for President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said it was not clear why the engine stopped working.<\/p>\n
The president was not hurt but firefighters scrambled to put out the flames, local reports say.<\/p>\n
Mr Mohamud was chosen as president last year in a UN-backed move to end decades of conflict.<\/p>\n
The president was flying to the South Sudan capital, Juba, when it was forced to turn round.<\/p>\n
One of the first reports of the incident came from a Twitter feed run by the al-Shabab militant group but it did not say it had attacked the plane.<\/p>\n
African Union and Somali forces backing Mr Mohamud have driven al-Shabab from the country’s main cities in the past year but the al-Qaeda-linked group still stages occasional attacks.<\/p>\n
The new government is the first one in more than two decades to be recognised by the US and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/p>\n
BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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