Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — Several hundreds of young Somalians underwent courses in civil administration organised in Somalia by the Riyadh-based World Assembly of Muslim Youths or WAMY, the Islamic Agency reported Sunday.

It quoted the NGO's assistant secretary general, Abdul- Wahab Nurwalli, as saying that 150 people were involved in the last of such a courses, which was held in Hargeisa.

The courses were aimed at producing the required human resources for the socio-economic development of Somalia, which has been ravaged by several years of civil war.

Amng other things, the trainees were appraised with the principles of the Sharia or Islamic law and the functioning of Islamic civil society, the agency added.