Al-Shabaab terror group announces ban on plastic bags

Single-use bags ‘pose a threat to wellbeing of humans and animals’, says Islamist leader

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Al-Shabaab militants

Islamist militants will have to do their shopping with a bag for life in southern Somalia, where terror group al-Shabaab has banned single-use plastics.

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