Somalia’s government escalated its war against the jihadist groupAl-Shabaab by announcing a crackdown on Saturday on all forms of “propaganda” promoting the Islamist militants. Mogadishu’s Deputy Information Minister Abdirahman Yusuf said supportive coverage of Al-Shabaab’s “terrorist acts and ideology” in print, on TV and online was a “punishable” crime. “The Somali government is totally banning all kinds of coverage relating to the terrorist ideology and acts of intimidation by [Al-Shabaab],” Yusuf told reporters at a press conference. He said the government had launched cyber operations to …