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| Africa Horn |
| Murky Arms Traffic Plagues Somalia |
| 2014-12-31 |
| Since leaving Somalia in the 1990s, Musa Haji Mohamed Ganjab has been a landlord and entrepreneur and served as a representative of the Somali government, which the U.S. is backing to fight the jihadist group al-Shabaab. He also has ordered that arms intended for Somalia’s government be delivered instead to an al-Shabaab commander, a confidential United Nations report alleges. This is just one of the discussions, the report says, that Mr. Ganjab has had about illegally arming groups in Somalia, including the government. The report shows the complexity of the struggle against extremism in Somalia, a country that is a U.S. national-security concern because of its local al Qaeda-linked group. Al-Shabaab recently launched two attacks just across the border in Kenya in which it slaughtered all non-Muslims, including killing 36 at a quarry-worker camp early this month and more than two dozen in an attack on a bus in November. On Christmas Day, it attacked an African Union base in Mogadishu, killing three soldiers. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 AWA (Africa Wins Again) |
| Posted by: Grunter 2014-12-31 12:33 |
| #3 Things can go badly in Africa you know. Runner-up for Understatement of the Year. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-31 08:35 |
| #2 Mr. Barlow told Mr. Ganjab that would require U.N. certification the shipments were legal, said a person familiar with the meeting. This person also said a South African government official brokered the meeting and attended. Spokesmen for South Africa’s government didn’t respond to requests for comment. Yes, yes of course, SA gov't approved and everything. Can't we have a UN look just to be the safe side? Not to be harde-gat [a hard arse] but second set eyes as it were, might be helpful and give me a bit more insurance in the unlikely event things go badly and yours truly is stuck holding the pot....again. Things can go badly in Africa you know. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-12-31 07:05 |
| #1 Nvr mnd |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-12-31 05:52 |