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Somaliland envoy in Djibouti accused of faking assassination attempts

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Sunday September 21, 2025

Borama (HOL) — Somaliland authorities say the deputy representative in Djibouti staged two alleged assassination attempts, shooting himself on both occasions in what investigators concluded were self-inflicted wounds.
The Awdal Regional Security Committee announced Sunday that its investigation determined Deputy Envoy Abdifatah Elmi Mohamed was not the victim of gunmen, as he had claimed. Investigators said Mohamud discharged his own pistol during both incidents, including once by firing a round into his mouth.
Mohamed initially reported that armed men ambushed his vehicle while he was travelling on the Borama–Gabiley road, leading to his hospitalization. Days after being released, he alleged a second attack, claiming his home was raided and that he had been shot in the face.

Col. Mohamed Abdullahi Muse, head of the Awdal Criminal Investigations Department, said forensic evidence and ballistics contradicted those accounts. “Our investigation revealed he placed a pistol in his mouth and pulled the trigger while shielding his gums. The weapon was a small Turkish-made handgun, and the bullets matched the firearm recovered from his residence,” Muse said.
Medical staff also confirmed the injuries were consistent with a firearm discharged inside the mouth, not from an external shot. Authorities said they recovered the pistol at his home along with medication prescribed for mental health conditions.
A message circulating on Facebook and attributed to Somaliland’s deputy envoy in Djibouti, Abdifatah Elmi Mohamud, rejects investigators’ findings that he staged two alleged assassination attempts and inflicted the injuries on himself.
The statement, posted on the page of a local journalist, could not be independently verified. In it, Mohamud insists he has never contemplated suicide, saying such an act would contradict his Islamic faith and principles. He describes the claims as part of a conspiracy aimed at silencing him and damaging his reputation.
“I want people to understand: if anything happens to me, I am not someone who would take his own life,” the message reads, adding that allegations he shot himself were “a lie used to cover up a crime and a plot.”
The motive remains unclear. Officials said Mohamed told investigators in both cases that he did not know who shot him. But ballistics analysis and evidence from his residence confirmed the shots were not fired from outside, and that he had staged the incidents himself.

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