{"id":6967,"date":"2020-11-13T22:55:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T22:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=6967"},"modified":"2020-11-21T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T11:11:36","slug":"african-ministers-decry-al-shababs-recruitment-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/11\/13\/african-ministers-decry-al-shababs-recruitment-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"African ministers decry Al-shabab&#8217;s recruitment drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> African ministers from countries that are contributing troops to Somalia have expressed concern about the continued recruitment drive by al-Shabab in the Horn of African nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ministers who met virtually to review the security situation in Somalia in a joint statement issued on Thursday also expressed deep concern over the continued threat posed by al-Shabab and their acquisition of sophisticated weaponry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting came amid reports that al-Shabab militants have launched what appears to be a forced recruitment campaign in Somalia&#8217;s southern region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group, which controls large parts of southern regions, is reportedly pressuring leaders of local villages to make sure teenagers join its ranks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The campaign has prompted hundreds of children to flee areas controlled by al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The meeting commended the Federal Government of Somalia for the efforts undertaken towards inclusive politics and welcomed the agreement on the electoral model for the 2020\/21 national elections,&#8221; they said in a joint statement issued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting re-emphasized the direction of the AU Peace and Security Council and urged the UN Security Council to agree on the modalities for an African Union-United Nations co-leadership in undertaking the independent assessment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Considering the challenges and the strategic issues related to their continued support to Somalia, the meeting agreed to meet again next week,&#8221; said the ministers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ministers from Kenya, Djibouti, Burundi, Ethiopia, and Uganda attended the virtual meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The meeting received a briefing from African Union Mission in Somalia about the prevailing political and security situation in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-11\/13\/c_139512006.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; African ministers from countries that are contributing troops to Somalia have expressed concern about the continued recruitment drive by al-Shabab in the Horn of African nation. The ministers who met virtually to review the security situation in Somalia in a joint statement issued on Thursday also expressed deep concern over the continued threat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}