#alShabaab not slowed yet by #coronavirus
The #alQaida linked group "continued its activities & attacks across #Somalia unabated & largely unaffected by the #COVID19 pandemic" per @UN report
"Member States observed that there had been no reduction in the momentum of attacks"
#Mogadishu "witnessed an upsurge in complex attacks against civilian & military targets" per latest @UN report
Outside of #Somalia, #alShabaab appears "emboldened by the January attack on a United States military base on Manda Island in #Kenya" per @UN member state intel
Intel on #alShabaab also points to "a resurgence of kidnapping for ransom & attempts at abductions of professionals including healthcare workers, security personnel, teachers and administrators" per @UN report "...to provide services in Al-Shabaab-controlled territories"
Dissent, problems w/#alShabaab leadership?
"Member States informed the Monitoring Team that alShabaab leader Ahmed Diriye had been indisposed for some time" per @UN some top commanders also "expelled by the leader following wrangling over biased distribution of resources"
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