...boodling on the grand scale...
Security Council for supporting Islamist krazed killers, including Al-Shabaab
... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
, in the lawless Somalia.
The Red Sea State defiantly stated that it would prevail in spite of the hurdles placed on its way by the new sanctions. (Read: UN adopts milder Eritrea stance)
"The peoples of Eritrea, Ethiopia and the region will undoubtedly pay the price for this continued misguided policy, but the Eritrean people will prevail, as they prevailed in the past" a statement from Eritrean Foreign Ministry stated.
The Council passed the resolution with 13 votes in favour and two abstentions from China and Russia on Monday to expand sanctions imposed two years ago--that included an arms embargo.
The new resolution watered down at the insistence of Russia and China now requires foreign companies involved in mining in Eritrea to exercise "vigilance" to ensure funds from the sector are not used to destabilise the region.
The original draft circulated by Gabon sought to ban investment in Eritrea's mining industry and outlaw imports of its minerals. It further sought to block payment of a tax Eritrea charges on remittances from its nationals abroad.
The resolution drew the support of the US, Britannia and La Belle France, Gabon, Nigeria and South Africa.
Eritrea is furious at what it termed "US instigated sanctions" and warned that such action would exacerbate conflict and instability in the Horn of Africa.