Amnesty concerned over arms shipment to Somalia

Kampala, 25 Jan-(ANA)- A new report by Amnesty International has suggested that unregulated arms supplies to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia may be finding their way into the hands of its opponents including the militant Islamist fighters Al Shabaab.

The report also accuses Uganda, Ethiopia and Yemen of supplying the TFG-outside of the United Nations regulatory regime, which has imposed an arms embargo on Somalia.

"International arms supplies to TFG forces have increased during 2009. The UN Monitoring Group on Somalia has reported since 2006 that TFG forces have received arms and ammunition from the three states without those states having applied for exemptions to the UN arms embargo from the UN Sanctions Committee on Somalia," the report says. (ANA)

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