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Al Shabaab again allows importing charcoal from lower Shabelle region
[Shabelle] News sources from Barawe town in lower Shabelle region suggest that AL-Shabaab hard boyz in Barawe town again allowed importing charcoal from Barawe town in lower province.Al-Shabaab  ... the personification of Somali state failure... officials who spoke to radio speaks with AL-Shabaab's mouth located in Barawe town broadcast that AL-Shabaab freed charcoal importing from coastal city of Barawe . Somali's AL-Qaeda linked group of Al-shabab recently stopped importing charcoal from Barawe town in lower Shabelle province. Local residents in Barawe town told Shabelle Media station in Mogadishu that following allowance of AL-Shabaab importing charcoal from the town that loaded trucks with charcoal reached at the town. AL-Shabaab rejected already importing charcoal from the port city of Kismayo in lower Juba region. United nation imposed ban on Somali charcoal trade after the charcoal business had become Al-Shabaab's most lucrative source of income, according to the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... . Posted by: Fred 2013-10-27 |
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