Somalia’s al-Shabab bans mixed-sex handshakes
Men and women have been banned from shaking hands in a district of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab: under the ban imposed in the southern town of Jowhar, men and women who are not related are also barred from walking together or chatting in public: the al-Shabab administration said those who disobeyed the new rules would be punished according to Sharia law.