Somalia’s president welcomed Friday’s decision by the UN Security Council to fully lift an arms embargo on the Somalian government, while maintaining a ban on sales to the country’s militants. The United Nations in 1992 imposed an embargo on all arms deliveries to Somalia, though in recent years the Security Council has eased restrictions on sales to the central government.

 

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