A Malaysian man known as Ahmad Mustakim Abdul Hamid has been sentenced to 15 years of jail by a Somali military court in Mogadishu for assisting the Al-Shabaab terrorist group in the Horn of Africa country.

The Press Attaché of Somalia's Embassy in Malaysia Abdimajit M Osman – in a phone interview with Bernama last night – said that the sentence was read out by Colonel Hassan Ali Nur Shuuto, the chairperson of the Armed Forces Court...