update AMISOM Denies Drugs Contaminated With HIV : Al Shabaab Ignorance is ridiculous. Somalia's Al Shabaab Warns People Against Using Drugs Offered By AMISOM

AMISOM Denies Drugs Contaminated With

HIV

Mogadishu, Somalia (AHN) -

Al Qaeda-inspired group Al Shabaab has warned people against getting drugs from African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, an Al Shabaab official told reporters on Monday.
Sheikh Ali Mohammed Hussein, the insurgent group's chairman of the Banadir region, said Mogadishans should not use medicine offered by AMISOM, claiming that the drugs may have been contaminated with the HIV virus. Hussein said AMISOM's medicine came from an unnamed organization that he claimed wanted to spread the virus throughout the country.
"We are telling the people not to use or visit AMISOM bases searching

for drugs. Somali people must not be treated with them," Hussein was quoted as saying.
The Al Shabaab claims appear to be designed to placate the Al Qaeda terrorist network led by Osama bin Laden.
Al Shabaab has ordered three international aid agencies--World Vision, Adventist Development and Relief Agency, and Diakonia--to stop serving in Somalia in two months, claiming they are "actively propagating Christianity" in the Horn of Africa country. Other aid organizations also have been warned against taking over the agencies' work, or action would be taken against them.
Al Shabaab had already imposed a ban on more than 20 aid organizations, including United Nations and international aid agencies working in southern and central Somalia.

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