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The State Media, citing a local official, said that Ahmed Moorogabey and Ali Garweyne, who were among the commanders of Al-Shabaab, were killed in the operation.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, several EU countries made cuts to their national development aid budgets, a trend that is likely to continue due to additional costs incurred by governments due to the war in Ukraine. 

In addition, Hassan Sheikh promised that the government of Somalia will do reconstruction and development in all the areas freed from Al-Shabaab and deliver services to the local people.

Last week, 11 member states of the Security Council voted in favor of a resolution extending the arms embargo on Somalia that was imposed in 1992.  

Ali later moved to the US and became an Uber driver, until three years ago a US jury convicted him of torturing a Somali teenager in 1987 – which he denied.

Last week, the ministries of foreign affairs of Somalia and Kenya have recently announced they are in the final stages to implement the aviation deal within two weeks.

At the end of the meeting, the two ministers agreed to update the memoranda of understanding (MoUs) signed between Egypt and Somalia in 2015.

He said counterinsurgency operations, sieges by non-state actors around some towns, reprisal attacks, and threats of attacks are limiting humanitarian access in hard-to-reach areas.

Somalia’s government under recently elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been engaged in a new offensive against al-Shabab, including efforts to shut down its financial network.

The last such conference was held in August 2014. Barack Obama welcomed leaders from across the African continent to the nation’s capital for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit, the first such event of its kind.

Ali Jeyte highlighted the importance to unite the war against Al-Shabaab and making it a broad line involving all Somali people and the troops from the National Army and the Somali regional forces.

Al-Shabaab is defending El-Bur, a strategic town in the Galgadud region from the allied forces who are advancing on the group’s main stronghold in central Somalia as the military offensive gains momentum.