Africa-Press – Mozambique. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud recently suggested that Al-Shabaab funds terrorists in Mozambique, as well as in Nigeria, where Boko Haram and ISWAP, an Islamic State-affiliated faction, are based.
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s accusation about funding “groups in Mozambique and Nigeria is not only absurd but woefully laughable”, reads a reply published on the pro-Al-Shabaab website “Somali Memo” yesterday, quoted by the BBC.
“We have evidence that the money collected by Al-Shabaab is used in financing terror groups in Mozambique and Nigeria with some going to Al-Qaeda,” president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said during a visit to Somali soldiers and police officers training in Turkey.
How to stop funding?
“We’ll shut down these revenue streams,” promised Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who took office in May this year after serving a first term as president between 2012 and 2017.
A 2018 report by Somalia’s Hiraal Institute estimated the annual revenues of the extremist group Al-Shabaab at around US$27 million.
The al-Shabaab group, which joined al-Qaeda in 2012, is deeply rooted in the Middle East and North Africa, and regularly carries out attacks in Somalia.
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