A United Nations report has revealedthat Somali Islamist insurgents are making their own explosives to mount morefrequent and deadly attacks. The findings are a blow forinternationally backed efforts to fight the al Shabaab insurgency, which hasrepeatedly carried out attacks in East Africa and launched dozens in Somaliathis year despite a dramatic The analysis was based on at least 20attacks since July 2018, the report said. It specify who did the analysis, butfootnotes cited the U.N. Mine Action Service, the U.S. Federal Bureau ofInvestigation and experts who were not named but only identified by the dateson which they were interviewed. The U.N. panel declined to comment,and the two organisations did not respond to questions from Reuters. Somali government officials could notbe reached for comment Luitenant Colonel Charles Imbiakha, spokesman for theAfrican Union peacekeeping force AMISOM, said it could not comment because ithad not seen the report.