{"id":10900,"date":"2026-05-01T04:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.onkodradio.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:00:50","slug":"34-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/34-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Rallies Youth-Focused Strategy to Counter Extremism at National Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, Somalia (Onkod Radio) Somalia&#8217;s top leadership attended a forum on countering extremism held in Mogadishu, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by the TUBSAN Center, The forum brought together representatives from the international community and organizations engaged in counter-extremism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Countering violent extremism is not unique to Somalia, but as the Federal Government, we have chosen a nationally owned, people-centered approach linking security gains with stabilization, prevention, and above all, democratization that gives youth a real voice in Somalia\u2019s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/isQt4EMtNp\">pic.twitter.com\/isQt4EMtNp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salah Jama (@SalahJama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SalahJama\/status\/2049876488313270751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"82\" data-end=\"310\">Somalia&#8217;s deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Somalia<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Saleh Ahmed Jama<\/span><\/span>, chaired the forum which focused on enhancing efforts to combat extremist ideologies and increasing public awareness, particularly among young people, to prevent recruitment by terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"495\" data-end=\"653\">The Deputy Prime Minister highlighted the government\u2019s progress in security and counter-terrorism, while emphasizing the need to expand awareness initiatives.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"774\">\u201cThe government is committed to ensuring security and building a generation free from extremist ideologies,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"774\">Extremist ideologies have been common in Somalia and spreading fast unnoticed, however, the government&#8217;s current policies in countering these ideologies are on fast-track.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"774\">Analysts believe that the government&#8217;s campaign in the fight against the extremist ideologies is short term approach, but requires practical approach with proper channels of communications.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"959\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, Somalia (Onkod Radio) Somalia&rsquo;s top leadership attended a forum on countering extremism held in Mogadishu, local media reported. Organized by the TUBSAN Center, The forum brought together representatives from the international community and organizations engaged in counter-extremism. Countering violent extremism is not unique to Somalia, but as the Federal Government, we have chosen a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-local-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/FB_IMG_1777544502377-300x200-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onkodradio.staging.ileysinc.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}