The sanctions shall run until December 2025, the Council said, while renewing the mandate of the Panel of Experts assisting the Al-Shabaab sanctions regime until 13 January 2026. The resolution 2776 of 2025 was unanimous, the UN reports.
The 15-member Council decided that “all States shall, to prevent Al-Shabaab and other actors intent on undermining peace and security in Somalia and the region from obtaining weapons and ammunition, take the necessary measures to prevent all deliveries of weapons, ammunition, and military equipment to Somalia.”
The measures, the council adds, shall not affect the delivery or supplies to the federal government of Somalia, whose arms embargo was lifted a few months ago. Also not affected are deliveries and supplies to the National Intelligence and Security Agency along with the Somali National Police Force and the Somali Custodial Corps.
The adopted resolution also recognizes the particular concern posed by the flow of weapons from Yemen
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to Somalia. al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
’s links to the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
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s are part of a wider pattern of Houthi destabilizing activity beyond Yemen’s borders, she said, adding that the 2713 and 2140 sanctions committees "should coordinate closely to monitor and counter this trend".
Other speakers also expressed concern for the flow of arms from Yemen to Somalia, with La Belle France saying the movement violates the relevant arms embargo. "It is vital to prevent al-Shabaab from establishing and exploiting ties with groups under sanctions in the region — including the Houthis," the French representative stressed.
The US expressed concerns over the growing ties between al-Shabaab and Yemeni Houthis. The representative called for dialogue between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to arrest the matter before it got out of hand.
"We urge our fellow Council members to support additional designations, including those of al-Shabaab operatives," the representative from the US said.
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
the representative of the Russian Federation countered that "the Yemen issue needs to be considered separately".
The draft contains elements that meet the aspirations of the Somalian side regarding the upcoming review of the sanctions regime, which has been in effect since 1992, she said, welcoming the restriction on access to weapons acquisition by non-State bodies