UNSC Declines Designating Shabaab Mujahideen a Terrorist Organization

Though an improbable event, the United Nations Security Council UNSC has declined to designate the Al-Qaeda branch in Somalia, Harakat Shabaab Mujahideen (HSM) as a terrorist organization 28th August 2019, under resolution 1267. The watershed event was a response to Republic of Kenya’s formal request that UNSC list Al-Qaeda’s most redoubtable offshoot and branch as...