EASO COI Report - Somalia Targeted profiles 2021

‘Refugee’, ‘risk’ and similar terminology are used as generic terminology and not in the legal sense as applied in the EU Asylum Acquis, the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees. [...] This report is produced in line with the EASO COI Report Methodology (2019)2 and the EASO COI Writing and Referencing Style Guide (2019).3 Defining the terms of reference The terms of reference of this report build on the input received from country of origin information (COI) and policy experts from EU+ countries4 within the context of country guidance development on Somalia. [...] At the end of the section, information on the recruitment of youth and children and on the recruitment of women is highlighted. [...] However, since the group lost territory in the urban centres between 2012 and 2015, it has recruited most of its new members in rural areas under its control, including the densely populated Bay and Bakool regions, with children forming the majority of the new recruits.20 As noted by Landinfo, the most important target groups for recruitment have been boys and young men between the age of 12 and 2. [...] As the group lacks the capacity to exert control all the time and everywhere, punishments are carried out in an exemplary manner to instill fear in the population.152 The BBC further quotes the former AS member as saying that he would never return to his native village in AS territory, he would spend the rest of his life trying to hide in Mogadishu, fearing that otherwise AS would find him and put.