Friday, October 03, 2008
It also has given warnings to others.
Spokesman for the Islamist Al-shabaab movement said that Care International and International Medical Corps (IMS) have been involved in "immoral and bad activities" that are against the teaching of Islam. He did not elaborate.
"We cannot accept such activities by these two organizations to continue under our rule. We have also given warning to other international NGOs," Sheik Muqtar Robow, Al-Shabaab spokesman told Xinhua.
The Al-shabaab is one of the hard-line insurgency groups that have been waging deadly attacks on Ethiopian troops backing Somali government forces since the allied forces ousted an Islamist administration in South and central Somalia in December 2006.
The group's fighters are in control of a number of regions in south Somalia including Kismayu, the third largest city in Somalia, where they have been ruling according to the Koran ever since they took over the port city in August.
Another insurgent group, Islamic Courts Union, last week called on aid agencies to operate in areas they control in central Somalia.
Commanders of the Islamic Courts said they will gurantee the security of the staff of the international aid agencies.
Aid agencies have withdrawn their foreign staff from Somali and have scaled down their operations following the killing or the abduction of both local and foreign aid workers in south and central Somalia.
Source: Xinhua, Oct. 03, 2008