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UK hosts Somalia summit

David Cameron will host an international conference in London today to help Somalia end more than two decades of conflict. Somalia's president Hasan Sheikh Mohamud will co-host the event.

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Cameron to call for long-term security plan for Somalia

David Cameron will warn today that failure to properly support the rebuilding of Somalia will lead to "terrorism and mass migration" from the region at today's international conference on the country in London.

Opening the conference Cameron will call for the international community to support the new government in pushing back al Shabaab Islamist militias. He will say:

Despite the gains made against al Shabaab the recent tragic and despicable attacks in Mogadishu...remind us how much work there is still to do in the fight against terrorism and extremism.

These challenges are not just issues for Somalia. They matter to Britain - and to the whole international community. Why? Because when young minds are poisoned by radicalism and they go on to export terrorism and extremism, the security of the whole world is at stake.

And to anyone who says, this isn't a priority or we can't afford to deal with it, I would say that is what we've said in the past and look where it has got us: terrorism and mass migration.

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