Sunday, September 20, 2009

Somali religious leaders outlaw UN books

The Al-Shabab, a Islamic group demand to cease the usage of United Nations textbooks to schools.

Somali schools should stop using "un-Islamic" textbooks distributed by the United Nations, a spokesman for the Islamist group al-Shabab has said. (BBC) 

"I call upon all Somali parents not to send their youngsters to schools with curriculum supported by the UN agencies." The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says it is not clear whether other al-Shabab leaders share his view. (BBC)

Schools still run and operate amid the country's civil war fighting for the past 18 years. (Hiraan Online)



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