Mogadishu, Somalia (AHN) – Somalia’s fragile transitional government has disclosed it has finalized a job creation program for youths in a bid to protect them from falling into crimes such as extremism.
Aweys Sheik Haddad, director general for Somali labor, youth and sports ministry, announced the program Thursday afternoon during a ceremony marking World Tuberculosis Day.
Haddad said the program will teach job skills for young men to prevent them from being recruited as fighters by the rebel Islamist group Al-Shabaab.
He said the program will be in two phases, first to teach the youths job skills and then to find job opportunities for them.
“I am very hopeful that this tangible initiative will yield positive results of decreasing the number of Somali youths exploited as combatants by the terrorist Al-Shabaab group,” Haddad told the ceremony.
He denied as “baseless propaganda” reports that the Somali government also recruits children as soldiers. However all participants in Somalia’s armed conflicts, including the transitional federal government, the regional semi-autonomous states, moderate Islamists and the al Qaeda-linked militants are known to recruit child soldiers.
Former warlords also used to recruit children, mostly those from poorer families and orphans.
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