Closure of UNPOS
The United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) completed its Security Council mandate on 3 June 2013. The United Nations continues to provide support to the Somalia Federal Government's peace and reconciliation efforts through the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), established by Security Council resolution 2101 (2013).
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14 Dec
2009
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights makes a statement in Geneva that the Al-Shabab militant group, has been using human shields and indiscriminately firing mortars into populated areas where they have also planted bombs and mines. One day earlier, the Associated Press reported that Al-Shabab beheaded seven prisoners, accusing them of abandoning the Muslim faith and spying for the Government.