President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud |
MUNICH (Reuters) – Fighters for the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram
have been trained in Somalia on Africa’s eastern coast before returning to West
Africa, Somalia’s president told a security conference in Germany on Sunday.
Somalia, plagued by political in-fighting, corruption and attacks by al Shabaab
insurgents, has recently made limited progress towards creating a functioning
political system, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said.
“Without a stable Somalia, the whole region of the Horn of Africa will remain unstable and by and large, the African continent. There are proofs and evidence that (for) some time Boko Haram has been trained in Somalia and they went back to Nigeria,” he said.
“Without a stable Somalia, the whole region of the Horn of Africa will remain unstable and by and large, the African continent. There are proofs and evidence that (for) some time Boko Haram has been trained in Somalia and they went back to Nigeria,” he said.
“The terrorists are so linked
together, they are associated and so organised, (that) we the world we need to
be so organised,” he said, speaking in English. It was not clear from his
comments whether he believed al Shabaab was still training Boko Haram fighters,
who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.
Somalia’s al Shabaab, which has links to al Qaeda and wants to overthrow the Somali government and impose a harsh version of Islamic law, claimed responsibility for a blast this month that punched a hole in the fuselage of a plane.
Somalia’s al Shabaab, which has links to al Qaeda and wants to overthrow the Somali government and impose a harsh version of Islamic law, claimed responsibility for a blast this month that punched a hole in the fuselage of a plane.
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