Somalias president criticises new US ban

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(7 Mar 2017) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made an emergency visit to Somalia on Tuesday to highlight the country's famine crisis and met with the new president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. • Somalia is one of the six Muslim-majority countries affected by the new travel ban ordered by US President Donald Trump. • Mohamed said he was disappointed about the travel ban, and highlighted the contribution made by the Somali community to the US economy. • But he acknowledged that the Somali government needed to tackle the root cause of extremism by focusing on how to defeat (Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels) al Shabaab here. • Welcoming the UN chief, Mohamed said: My first priority is to address this drought crisis and my main priority is to make an appeal to the international community to help us. • Guterres urged international support to provide food and humanitarian aid to Somalia. • Somalia is part of a massive 4 billion US aid appeal launched last month for four nations suffering from conflict and hunger. • The others are Nigeria, Yemen and South Sudan, where famine already has been declared. • Somalia over the weekend announced its first death toll since declaring a national disaster last week, saying 110 people had died in a 48-hour period in a single region. • The United Nations estimates that 5 million people in Somalia need aid, amid warnings of a famine. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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