Somalia faces regular al-Shabab attacks even after driving them from the capital, Mogadishu, in 2011.
Somalia faces regular al-Shabab attacks even after driving them from the capital, Mogadishu, in 2011.
Munich
: Somalia's president says military forces have made inroads in their fight against al-Shabab militants but the key to defeating them lies in providing better opportunities for the country's youth.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Sunday told a gathering of top defense officials and diplomats that 70 percent of his country's population is under 35 and have grown up in the chaos of a lawless state after the government collapsed in 1991.
He says that's left them -"very, very vulnerable to be recruited by the evil forces-" like al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab.
Mohamud says many of those fighting for al-Shabab -"are not there for ideological reasons, they are there for economic reasons to feed their families.-"
Somalia faces regular al-Shabab attacks even after driving them from the capital, Mogadishu, in 2011.
