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SOMALIA’S PRESIDENT: MANY FIGHT FOR AL-SHABAB FOR MONEY

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Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addresses the delegates at the Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader}

MUNICH (AP) — 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.

Source: AP

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