ONE of the world’s most barbaric terrorist organisations has banned plastic bags - because they believe they harm life on Earth.

The Somali terror group al-Shabaab, known for butchering thousands of people across east Africa, has banned them in an apparent re-branding exercise to show they care about the planet.

2 Al Shabaab fighters at a Mogadishu Somalia Graduation Credit: Reuters

The sinister group's main mouthpiece, Radio Andalus, broadcast news of the ban on Sunday, reports Huffington Post.

The propaganda said discarded plastic bags “pose a serious threat to the well-being of humans and animals alike”.

The jihadist outfit - who openly boast about their violence - also want to halt logging of native trees.

Mohamed Abu Abdalla, the group’s governor for southern Somalia’s Shabelle regions, said details of how the new rules will be enforced will be announced later.

2 Plastic bags bad... violent terrorism good? Credit: E+ - Getty

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But given their reputation for being ultra hard-line, a fine and a nice leaflet are unlikely penalties.

Raffaello Pantucci, counter-terror expert at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), said the move was designed to show the world that the group could govern.

So far they have only shown how they can kill.

In one outrage last year, they carried out a truck bombing in 2017 that killed more than 500 people.

Meanwhile supermarket staff in Australia have faced attacks and abuse from angry shoppers over a plastic bag ban - with one man even grabbing a female staff member by the throat.

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