{"id":112550,"date":"2025-02-18T22:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/?p=112550"},"modified":"2025-02-19T00:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:52:42","slug":"112550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2025\/02\/112550\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on Al-Shabaab renewed by the United Nations Security Council."},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Nations Security Council is expected to renew the sanctions on Al-Shabaab before February 28, 2025, as the Al-Shabaab group remains a major threat to Somalia’s stability and regional security.<\/p>\n

The measures, which were initially imposed to disrupt Al-Shabaab’s funding and operational capabilities, will continue to target the group’s illegal business networks, foreign financial sources, and arms procurement routes.<\/p>\n

Security analysts say the renewal reflects growing concern over the growing threat posed by al-Shabaab, as the group has expanded its financial operations beyond Somalia’s borders.<\/p>\n

The Al Shabaab group is reported to have strengthened its involvement in regional smuggling networks, including illegal gold trade and tax collection in the areas it controls.<\/p>\n

Western diplomats insist that the sanctions regime is important to maintain pressure on Al-Shabaab, to prevent the group from regaining territorial influence as Somalia’s security environment changes.<\/p>\n

If the new sanctions are passed, it will strengthen the position of the international community against Al-Shabaab, but the question is whether additional financial and governmental support will be added to the wider efforts to stabilize Somalia.<\/p>\n

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The United Nations Security Council is expected to renew the sanctions on Al-Shabaab before February 28, 2025, as the Al-Shabaab group remains a major threat to Somalia’s stability and regional security. The measures, which were initially imposed to disrupt Al-Shabaab’s funding and operational capabilities, will continue to target the group’s illegal business networks, foreign financial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dhacdoyinka-caalamka","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112576,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112550\/revisions\/112576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}