Maat condemns the Qatari intervention in the Horn of Africa

Maat condemns the Qatari intervention in the Horn of Africa

Aqeel: The Qatari regime must stop supporting terrorist groups and destabilize the African continent

The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights condemns the flagrant interference of the Qatari authorities in the Horn of Africa, especially in the State of Somalia, which undermines the human rights situation in the African continent and threatens international peace and security, as a result of its support for a number of terrorist armed groups within the continent, chief among them the Somali Al-Shabaab Movement and the Re The liberation of Somalia, the reform movement in the Horn of Africa, the movement of the Harti and Darod clans, the Rahnween army, the Bantu tribes movement, the Kismayo tribe movement.

The American newspaper "New York Times" published a press investigation on Monday, July 22, 2019, entitled "With guns, money and terrorism, the Gulf states are competing for power in Somalia", which confirmed the involvement of the Qatari intelligence services in carrying out terrorist acts and bombings in Somalia, and their support for armed groups there.

The newspaper published a secret recording revealing the involvement of the Doha ambassador in Mogadishu, Hassan bin Hamza bin Hashem, in bloody bombings carried out by a terrorist organization in Somalia, and in the audio recording, Qatari businessman Khalifa al-Muhannadi, close to the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad, acknowledges during an interview with the Doha ambassador that the extremists Bombing the Somali city of "Bosaso" to promote Qatari interests.

Al-Mohannadi says, a week after the Bosaso bombing in mid-May, that “Qatar’s friends carried out the attack,” and Doha knows who was behind the bombings and the killing, in order to force a country opposed to Qatar to leave Somalia. The New York Times indicated that Al-Muhannadi and Bin Hashem did not deny the audio recording, but said that they were speaking as ordinary citizens and not as Qatari officials, and with regard to talking about terrorists as friends of Qatar, Al-Mohannadi said that he believes that all Somalis are friends.

It is worth noting that the Maat Foundation had issued a number of reports and working papers that affirmed the Qatari interference in the internal affairs of countries and its role in supporting terrorist groups. On the sidelines of its participation in the high-level political forum at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Maat issued Analytical Paper On the challenges of building peaceful societies in Africa, and the paper dealt with the challenges facing peace and security in the African continent, especially the impact of external interventions on the decline of sustainable development indicators. The paper focused on the Qatari crude intervention in the internal affairs of African countries and its support for terrorist and extremist groups, and using it for the economy as a front for non-trade Legitimacy, which leads in one way or another to destabilization, which in particular hinders the achievement of the sixteenth goal and its goals.

During Qatar's undergoing the universal periodic review process for the third time at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Maat Foundation was organized Symposium On Qatar's use of hate speech and its support for terrorist groups, as the symposium in which a large number of jurists participated, confirmed that there are dozens of testimonies submitted by independent organizations and international experts to the Human Rights Council revealing Qatar's employment of hate speech, as the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel hosted “Abu Muhammad Al-Julani” The leader of the Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front, and broadcast audio recordings of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

Al-Jazeera also refuses to name terrorism against ISIS and other terrorist movements such as Jabhat al-Nusra or al-Qaeda, and when al-Jazeera mentions ISIS, it says “Islamic State” instead of the word ISIS, and it refuses to even mention the word terrorist, and they use that term In an attempt to legitimize the terrorist organization ISIS in front of the Arab viewer and reader.

On the sidelines of the 64th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, the Maat Foundation was held Symposium Entitled the impact of external interventions on the human rights situation in Africa, the symposium discussed the interventions of some countries, including Qatar, in the internal affairs of states and their support for armed groups, which contradicts the United Nations Charter, and Article 20 and 23 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights that give states; And by extension, citizens have the right to sovereignty over their lands.

For his part, Ayman Aqil, head of the Maat Foundation, said that the Qatari interference in the internal affairs of countries is working to strike political and social stability and undermines the human rights situation. Aqeel emphasized that Qatari support for terrorist armed groups threatens international peace and security, and constitutes a flagrant violation of all international conventions and norms. Talib Aqeel The international community urges the need to pressure the Qatari regime to stop supporting terrorist armed groups that work to destabilize the African continent, and the serious threat that this poses to international peace and security.

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