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New Strategies, Ongoing Crisis: Comprehensive Approaches in Defeating al-Shabaab

Al-Shabaab boasts a steady flow of fighters, annual revenues of $100 million via multiple funding streams, and an extensive arms acquisition unit.

Al-Shabaab—al-Qaeda’s largest, wealthiest, and most kinetically active cell—has posed a critical threat to Somalia’s security since the group’s establishment in late 2006. The group’s insurgency in Somalia and high-profile attacks against neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia has reshaped the region’s security and driven international and multilateral responses that are reshaping conventional counterterror methods and practices.

Eroding al-Shabaab’s network has proven to be no easy feat. The organization boasts a steady flow of fighters, annual revenues of $100 million via multiple funding streams, an extensive arms acquisition unit with a monthly budget of $2 million, an intelligence division that is vital to conducting suicide attacks, and a police force.

According to scholars, al-Shabaab controls about 70 percent of south and central Somalia.

Read more at the Counter Extremism Project

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The Government Technology & Services Coalition's Homeland Security Today (HSToday) is the premier news and information resource for the homeland security community, dedicated to elevating the discussions and insights that can support a safe and secure nation. A non-profit magazine and media platform, HSToday provides readers with the whole story, placing facts and comments in context to inform debate and drive realistic solutions to some of the nation’s most vexing security challenges.

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