The militant group Al-Shabaab rose out of the disintegrating Somali state, emerging in 2006 from an existing radical network that held it over the capital Mogadishu through Sharia courts. Since then it has suffered both battlefield defeats and territorial losses yet remains as strong as ever, writes Stig Jarle Hansen for The Conversation Africa.
Despite suffering military defeats, the group thrives through illegal taxation, smuggling, and money laundering. Clan dynamics play a significant role, with Al-Shabaab leveraging clan rivalries and allegiances to maintain influence. In strategic regions, for example, along al-Shabaab supply routes, clan elders can have a great influence.over the past fifteen years, but it still cannot conduct effective offensives in several regions.
In a town-hall event marking two years since his government's inception, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre of Somalia delivered a speech that celebrated significant military… In a briefing to the United Nations Security Council, James Swan, the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance…
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