Somalia: the Al Chabaab rebels order the expulsion of three ONG

The Somali Al Chabaab rebels, radical islamist group, related to Al-Qaida, announced on August 8 to have ordered at three humanitarian agencies to put an end to their activities, by showing them of Christian proselytism.

Al Chabaab known as to have prohibited in World Vision, at the adventist Agency of assistance and development (Adra) and with Diakonia to cease achieving their tasks, because according to their official statement, “playing the missionaries under pretext of humanitarian action, these organizations propagate their ideologies corrupted to vitiate the pure belief of the Moslems of Somalia”.

Al Chabaab controls most of the south and of the center of Somalia with another rebel movement, Hizbul Islam.

According to the Organization of UNO for the food and agriculture (FAO), about half of the Somali need assistance and their country is that which knows the highest rates of malnutrition of the world.