Al-shabab lifts ban on Aid Agencies

The militias Al-shabab have announced they are allowing the humanitarian aid agencies who are willing to assist the drought-scourged Somalis to operate in the areas they control regardless of the agency’s religious affiliation. The statement was delivered in a press release in Mogadishu by the group’s spokesman Ali Mohamed Rage, Ali Dheere. Ali Dhere said they have decided to permit the operations of the aid agencies who were formerly involved in delivering humanitarian assistance to the Somali people.
The spokesman said they had formed committees who are to oversee the drought-affected people in their areas of control. The people are reported to be suffering from abject poverty in Al-shabab-controlled areas after they banned humanitarian agencies from operating inside Somalia.
Ali said any entity operating under the name of helping and assisting the drought-hit people can contact the committees formed by the militias in order to assist the people emphasising that the agencies should not have any other motive.
The statement is following a country-wide fleeing of people from drought affected areas and flocking to Mogadishu where the government started to set up centres for them. Al-shabab have previously chased away aid agencies.

















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