An alarming report by the U.N. monitoring group charged with overseeing Somalia warns the government there has been steering weapons to clan-based militias and possibly even al-Shabaab, according to an article by Reuters on Thursday. Somalia has long been a vortex for arms shipments. Beginning during the Carter administration and continuing
Is The Somali Government Arming Militias And Terrorists?
A new report cites “systematic abuses” by the government and accuses it of planning shipments to militias and a leader of an al-Qaida-linked terror group.