Somali Government’s Strength Defeating Al-Shabaab: Is it Show or a Genuine fight

[Deeq A.]

Somalia is a nation at war with itself. On the one hand, there is an ideological and constitutional dichotomy between member states and the federal government. On the other hand, Al-Shabaab is engaged in an active war against all Somalis. The Somalia government has been battling with prolonged conflict and insecurity since the central government’s fall in 1991. The source of insecurity is mostly the activity of Al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab is an Al-Qaeda affiliate that operates primarily from the country’s southern and central regions. The group is fighting the Somali Federal. Somalia become a federal republic 2012. The provisional Constitution of Federal Republic of Somalia was adopted on August 01, 2012 by a National Constitutional Assembly in Mogadishu, Banaadir. Al-Shabaab was formed in 2004 as part of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a network of Islamist militant tribes that controlled southern and central Somalia and fought against what they considered an Ethiopian invasion. After the defeat of ICU in 2006, Al-Shabaab took up the cause and continued fighting Somalia’s successive governments and anyone associated with them (Farhia Ali Abdi, 2016).

Source: Hiiraan Online