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Mixed reactions as UN lifts arms ban on Somalia after joining EAC

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Somalia’s President Sheikh Mohamud. PHOTO | POOL

By  Aggrey Mutambo  &  Abdulkadir Khalif

Somalia’s entry into the East African Community (EAC) as well as promising domestic reforms helped earn the country a lifting of an arms embargo imposed 31 years ago.

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