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One of the main openly pro-Shabaab websites used to disseminate the group’s ideas across the world and radicalise youths appears to have been suspended.
The website (www.radioalfurqaan.com) has been suspended in the recent days by its webhost in what appears to be crackdown on the presence of the militants online to deter their recruitment and radicalising activities in Somalia and the region.
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