Is al-Shabab running a parallel state in Somalia?
The death of the mayor of Mogadishu in Somalia two weeks ago has got people talking about the mafia-like influence of al-Shabab.
The Islamist militant group is known to have a sophisticated web of spies, which it pays for information. But how does it manage this?
βIt has the ability to collect revenue from major businesses and institutions in the country,β a leading opposition politician, Abdirahman Warsame, has told ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Newsday.
βPeople pay taxes to al-Shabab individually,β he added.
Listen to what else he had to say about how the al-Qaeda-linked group functions.
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