The Somali Islamist group of Al-shabab controls much of southern Somalia, while the western backed government runs only a little of the capital city Mogadishu.

It is the fourth times that Islamists have stoned a person to death for adultery during the past year alone.

Al-shabab has stoned to death two men in the same town after accusing them of spying. A 13-year-old girl was stoned to death for adultery in the port town of Kismayo some 300 km south of Mogadishu last year.

According to human rights groups a young girl had been raped. Also another man has been punished in this way in the lower Shabelle region.

Somalia has not had an effective government since warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991

(Written by Muhyadin Ahmed Roble is a Somali freelance Journalist based at Kenya who works with both local and international news networks in reporting the crisis in the Horn of Africa.   He was Editor of local Newspaper called Xiddigta and producer of Simba FM in Nairobi and Mogadishu.   He was working more then 6 years as writer, columnist, reporter, correspondent and editor.)

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