U.K bans Somali Islamists


  1. Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya
    The British government will ban Somali Islamist group of Al-Shabaab which pledged loyalty to Al-Qaeda network and noticed an international holy war last month, the British Interior Ministry said on Monday.
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    The British Home Office announced that the ban was ordered as prevent Islamists in Somalia those seeking funds from Somalis community live in U.K.

    Home Secretary Alan Johnson issued an order banning Somali extremist group of Al-Shabaab which members of parliament ought to approve.

    “Proscription is a tough but necessary power to tackle terrorism and is not a course of action we take lightly," Home Secretary Alan Johnson was quoted.

    "Al-Shabaab is committed to violence in order to achieve its aims, deploys a host of terrorist tactics and has been implicated in attacks on Somali citizens," Johnson added.

    The ban would mark Al-Shabaab’s membership a criminal offense. U.K is hosting about 43,000 Somalis who fled from their nation while immigration experts say the exact number is far higher. The United States has already banned the group as a terrorist element.

    Western countries have already warned that Somalia is becoming a haven for international terrorists.

    Al-Qaeda-inspired Al-shabaab fighters, who appeared in 2005 in the capital as to support the Islamic Courts Union, run most of southern Somalia and government controls a few areas in the capital Mogadishu, where Uganda and Burundi sent 5,000- strong peacekeepers.

    The fighting in Somalia has killed over 19,000 Somalis since 2007 and 1.5 million people displaced inside the country while another 560,000 civilians have registered as refugees in neighboring countries. Somalia is one of the world's worst humanitarian emergencies.

    The Horn of Africa nation has not had an effective government since warlords overthrew longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.



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