David Cameron Warns Cancelling Aid to Somalia Will Risk ‘Terrorism and Mass Migration’

London 08.May (SDN) British Prime Minister has called on the international community to ‘get right behind’ the rebuilding of war-torn Somalia. Britain is currently pumping around £250million over the next two years  into Somalia despite the state not having had a functioning government for two decades until recently. It comes as part of Britain’s push to pour billions of pounds of aid into the world’s most corrupt countries in a bid to tackle poverty, terrorism and illegal immigration. Almost 50 governments and the International Monetary Fund gathered in the UK to hear Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud outline his plans to stabilise the country after years of civil war. Mr Cameron said: “These challenges are not just issues for Somalia. They matter to Britain – and to the whole international community,” he told the conference. Why? Because when young minds are poisoned by radicalism and they go on to export terrorism and extremism, the security of the whole world is at stake. “And to anyone who says this isn’t a priority or we can’t afford to deal with it, I would say that is what we’ve said in the past and look where it has got us: terrorism and mass migration. “We made that mistake not just in the Horn of Africa, but also in Afghanistan in the 1990s and we must not make it again.” Mr Cameron added that a “proper, legitimate” government had been put in place alongside a clan-selected parliament.  The capital Mogadishu is starting to return to more normal life – with petrol stations, supermarkets and international flights returning for the first time since 1991 – despite continued terrorist attacks by extremists such as a suicide car bomb which killed several civilians last week.

The Express