🇸🇴 The #Somali Islamist group, #alShabaab, is the ‘largest, wealthiest and most deadly’ al-Qaeda affiliate remaining in the world.
🔴 Despite losing territory since 2011, the group has remained dominant, exerting control and power far beyond areas it physically controls.
🔴 Despite losing territory since 2011, the group has remained dominant, exerting control and power far beyond areas it physically controls.
💰 #AlShabaab’s continued resilience can largely be attributed to their checkpoint #taxation apparatus it has established throughout southern #Somalia.
The group categorizes its #tax system into four streams:
🚚 Transit
📦 Goods
🌾 Agricultural produce
🐐 Livestock
The group categorizes its #tax system into four streams:
🚚 Transit
📦 Goods
🌾 Agricultural produce
🐐 Livestock
⚠️ Despite the group’s #checkpoints and #tax officials routinely targeted by government and international forces, #AlShabaab can easily adapt by relocating those checkpoints and replacing the tax collectors.
🚨 How does the #alShabaab #tax-collection machine operate?
🧾 Read @PuntlandPirates’s new report analyzing over 800 tax receipts issued by al-Shabaab tax officials from July 2015 – Sept 2021 to commercial drivers passing through checkpoints 👇
globalinitiative.net/analysis/al-sh…
🧾 Read @PuntlandPirates’s new report analyzing over 800 tax receipts issued by al-Shabaab tax officials from July 2015 – Sept 2021 to commercial drivers passing through checkpoints 👇
globalinitiative.net/analysis/al-sh…
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