Uganda: Al-Shabaab Opposes Banned Groups From Returning

Mogadishu — Radical Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab has said organisations already banned in the war-torn country will not be allowed back.

Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Raghe alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, said the said organisations were not welcome to Somali, currently facing severe humanitarian crisis. "The organisations that we banned cannot come back," the spokesman stated Thursday evening. "Such entities are not included among those now invited to provide humanitarian aid," he added, without naming the affected organisations.

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