Kenyan troops smuggling sugar from Somalia

Porter Simon

23:35 | Friday, Nov 13, 2015

Of the $3, KDF takes $2, the loaders at the port and journalists said, with the balance divided between Jubaland and al-Shabaab, says the report. Al-Shabab has moved from one illegal business to another, with activities in illicit ivory, smuggled charcoal, kidnapping, piracy ransoms, racketeering and even fake charity drives, according to the NY Times.

"We categorically refute and reject the allegations of compatibility in the illegal charcoal trade in Somalia", she said, adding that allegations were aimed at ridiculing the force.

In the years since, Shebab attacks in Kenya have grown in number and scale - including the killing of at least 67 people at Nairobi's Westgate Mall in 2013 and the massacre of 148 people at a university in Garissa in April - with the militants saying the attacks are retaliation for the Kenyan military presence in Somalia and "war crimes" committed by Kenyan troops.

Al-Shabab lost control of Somalia's capital Mogadishu in 2011, but the group has remained a potent threat in the Horn of Africa country. It said the network enjoys the protection and tacit cooperation of leaders at the highest echelons of the executive and parliament.

"The hideouts have already been destroyed and the weapons handed to the government, " he said.

The USA government said Ma'alim Daud is responsible for al-Shabaab's planning, recruitment, training, and operations against the Somali government and Western targets. "(The) Somalia authority themselves appreciate that there are so many makeshift ports that are unpoliced", said Col Obonyo. Felbab-Brown, writing in June in Foreign Affairs, argues the incentive to get out of Somalia- or fully defeat al-Shabaab - dims with every passing day.

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