SOMALIA: DRAWING IN AL-SHABAAB TO FIGHT THE GOVERNMENT’S BATTLES IN FEDERAL STATES

SOMALIA: DRAWING IN AL-SHABAAB TO FIGHT THE GOVERNMENT’S BATTLES IN FEDERAL STATES

   Fri, 04 October 2019

The US is taking a prime position to benefit from oil sector opportunities in Somalia as the Horn of Africa country increasingly re-engages with international partners and donors. Somalia’s government is using warlord allies and the Shabaab militant group to secure its interests against rival federal states and neighbouring Kenya in an intensifying dispute over border demarcation and contested oil drilling rights.



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