UN General Assembly
2022

The most important lesson we have learned in the long modern war against international terrorists and terrorism is that neither can be contained or degraded. They need to be comprehensively defeated, wherever they exist. In Somalia, we are actively fighting the terrorist group called Al-Shabaab, which is an affiliate of Al-Qaida, and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham, separately. Both criminally misrepresent the beautiful and peaceful Islamic religion and values to destabilize the region and, in the process, terrorize the Somali people and their brothers and sisters in neighbouring countries and across the world.