Somalia leader says his advisers not helping Islamist militants
Somalia leader says his advisers not helping Islamist militants
Source: Reuters - Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:02 GMT, 17 Oct 2014
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(Adds U.N. monitoring group recommendations, diplomats, paragraphs 7-9)
By John Irish
PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Somalia's president said on Friday that nobody close to him had been involved in the unauthorised diversion of government weapons to Islamist militants and denied that a man U.N investigators linked to the arms trade had advised him.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was responding to a report from the United Nations' Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group that Somali army weapons and ammunition were being diverted to open markets despite the government's pledges to prevent its arms ending up in the hands of al Shabaab fighters.
By John Irish
PARIS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Somalia's president said on Friday that nobody close to him had been involved in the unauthorised diversion of government weapons to Islamist militants and denied that a man U.N investigators linked to the arms trade had advised him.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was responding to a report from the United Nations' Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group that Somali army weapons and ammunition were being diverted to open markets despite the government's pledges to prevent its arms ending up in the hands of al Shabaab fighters.