2024-03-02 22:00:00
Convicted of belonging to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), six Moroccans were sentenced to death by a military court in northern Somalia, a country where the terrorist group al-Shabab has been fighting the Somali government and the Mission since 2007. African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), a multidimensional mission authorized by the African Union (AU) and mandated by the United Nations Security Council.
The verdict was delivered on Thursday. Ali Dahir, vice-president of the military court of Bossaso, in the state of Puntland, sentenced six Moroccans to death. They are accused of having tried to “destroy their lives, that of Muslim society, that of the Somali people and to sow chaos in the country”. In a statement to the press, prosecutor Mohamed Hussein said that they had been arrested in Puntland and that the investigation had been continuing for almost a month. In addition to the Moroccan nationals, an Ethiopian national and a Somali citizen were sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with the same case.
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Somalia has been plagued by insecurity for years. The main threats come from terrorist groups affiliated with Daesh and al-Shabab. Driven out of Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in 2011 by the African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), a multidimensional mission authorized by the African Union (AU) and mandated by the United Nations Security Council, -It still controls large swathes of the countryside and continues to carry out deadly strikes once morest civilian, political and military targets. In October, the Somali government revealed that 1,650 al-Shabab terrorists have been eliminated and more than 550 others injured, over the past two months, in several military operations carried out in the south-central regions of Somalia. .
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