UN lifts Somalia arms embargo ...News

The restrictions were imposed in 1992 as a means to halt the flow of weapons to feuding warlords The United Nations Security Council voted on Friday to lift its last restrictions on the sale of weapons to Somalia’s government and armed forces, removing the final elements of a long-standing arms embargo. The UN imposed the ban in 1992 to limit the availability of weapons to warlords in the East African nation, competing for influence in a power vacuum caused by the toppling of former leader Mohamed Siad Barre, whose government had collapsed the year before in a rebellion – leading to civil war and a humanitarian cr

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