In their interview with “Sky News Arabia,” Somali analysts are upbeat about the government’s ongoing attacks on the pro-al Qaeda movement as a result of a recent agreement between the government and the populace that calls for the movement to be continuing being hammered in the bone.
The Somali army announced the killing of 3 members of the “Al -Shabab” movement in a military operation carried out on Saturday, in the “Maqoukouri” area of the town of Mahas in the province of Hiran, central Somalia.
The leadership of the army’s 27th division believes that the deceased are in charge of obtaining taxes (royals) in support of the cause.
This occurred a day after news broke of dozens of “Al-Shabab” movements close to Shubili and Heran, days after the army reclaimed complete control over the Central Shabili Governorate villages of Warken, Bakjeh, Galif, Raisi, Kurdiri, and Gilbeli.
Royalties, smuggling, and other sources of income are thought to contribute roughly $100 million yearly to the cause.
Mobilization and the declaration of war were the movement’s most significant “financial” blows.
Somali researcher Noman Hassan monitors what he considered “mobilization and declaration of war” between the Somalis against the “youth movement”, especially after royalists became a burden on the people; Where they plunder the money under the name of taxes.
He argues that in order to drive the terrorist movement out of the country, the government rallied the populace and the army, making all of the movement’s members a target.
Hassan is expected to hit the movement’s financial resources, which will suffocate them, but he linked the effectiveness of this continuously targeting, and is not limited to individuals that the movement can compensate for others.
operational inertia
Somali political researcher, Adam Haiba, agrees with him that the “youth movement” was under the siege as a result of “harmony and understanding between the army, the people and merchants, especially since many merchants resorted to helping the government after the movement’s threats to them and their trade.
“Haiba clarifies the function of this popular government consensus on a single vision in pursuing a sizable number of those in charge of collecting royalties and posing a threat to farmers and merchants, anticipating that the movement would experience “operational paralysis” if the targets were to continue to be money collectors.
The government’s priority, according to a statement from Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, is to combat the movement’s financial resources.
$15.00 million each month
The Somali Institute of “Heral”, which specializes in security studies, has previously monitored a lengthy number of funds that the movement gets, in a study that relied on interviews between June and October 2020 with 70 businessmen, government employees and representatives of NGOs in Mogadishu, the southwestern region, Herzersil Joballand and Pontland.
In Mogadishu, where businesses are compelled to pay both royalties to the terrorist movement and formal taxes to the government at the same time, the “youth movement” is said to raise at least $ 15 million each month.
specifically to eliminate royalties. 4 strikes received by the “youth movement” in Somalia
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