Saturday, September 04, 2010
Al Shabaab militias yesterday confiscated miraa from traders and burnt it in the town of Beled-weyne, north of Mogadishu.
The militias accused the traders of selling the herb inside the town in contravention of an earlier order requiring them to sell it at a site allocated to them outside the town.
A trader said that most of the affected traders were women. “Consumers cannot reach the out-of-town post,” the trader said, adding “we have to bring it to them.”
Radical Islamists in southern and central Somalia tend to restrict the sale and consumption of miraa, which is imported from Kenya and Ethiopia.
Source: Daily Nation