Local journalist Abdulkadir Ali, is assisted after the explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. A police spokesman says three Somali Cabinet ministers are among nine people killed in a bombing that ripped through a university graduation ceremony The spokesman, Col. Abdilahi Hassan Barise, says the ministers for education, higher education and health were among those killed in the blast. The officials were attending a graduation ceremony for medical, computer science and engineering students at a hotel in Mogadishu. African troops protecting the fragile Somali government wage near daily battles with Islamic militants who control much of central and southern Somalia. The Horn of African nation hasn’t had a stable government for almost two decades. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)