Somali radical Islamists Al-Shabaab have dismissed as inconsequential a recent visit by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to the war-torn country.
Al-Shabaab leaders said they did not recognise international laws either.
The fanatical movement controls large swathes of southern and central Somalia.
Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Raghe alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, the spokesman of Al-Shabaab, said his movement did not recognise the very existence of the United Nations.
“We do not believe in the principles and norms governing it (the UN),” said Sheikh Ali Dhere.
He added that his group would never compromise its principles despite Mr Ban's call to Al-Shabaab to join the peace process in Somalia.
Al-Shabaab militants want to install an Islamic state in Somalia, based on strict sharia (Islamic law).
Their methods, nevertheless, have alienated the moderate Islamic groups like Ahlu Sunna wal-Jamea (ASWJ) and secular political formations in Somalia.
Meanwhile, the spokesman of ASWJ in Gedo region in southern Somalia, Sheikh Mohamed Hussein Al-Qadi, told Kulmiye, a broadcaster in Mogadishu, on Sunday that his group planned to eradicate Al-Shabaab from Gedo, Bay and Bakol regions in southern Somalia in the near future.
Source: African Review
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