In 2012, Al-Shabaab was driven out of Kisameo. The port of the city served as a significant source of tax income, coal, fees on weapons imports, and other illegal imports.
At least 26 people were killed in a similar attack on another hotel in Kissameo in 2019.
A hard-line interpretation of Islamic law is used by the movement to impose its rule and topple the current administration. The movement’s militants have killed thousands of Somalis and hundreds of civilians across East Africa in a ten -year rebellion.
With the assistance of neighbourhood self-defense organisations, the Somali security forces claimed they had made progress against Al-Shabaab on the ground in recent weeks, but the organisation persisted in carrying out vicious assaults.
Where was the location of the youth group’s terrorist attack, which has so far claimed three lives?
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