Al-Shabaab imposes heavy taxes on Lower Shabelle.

[Homunculus]

Al-Shabaab has imposed hefty taxes on clans and businesspeople in Barawe and Bulo Marer in the Lower Shabelle region

The clans were given ten days to pay, although it is not clear for what the money will be used. Businesspeople in Bulo Marer were also told to pay unspecified amounts of money or their assets would be taken

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[nuune]

Oh, Sabahi Online, the US military funded website, ok, got it.

[Homunculus]

nuune;961991 wrote:

Oh, Sabahi Online, the US military funded website, ok, got it.

Really, very interesting. I got it from Google news. So Sabahi is like the Al hurra or VOA (funded by the US)

[nuune]

Yes, they are the mouthpiece of US military, you may have seen Google ads on Hiiraan and other websites belonging Sabahi Online, the ads are all about Alshabaab, the site costs one million per year, it is already running one year, most fo the funds goes to advertising and the salaries of reporters with different language skills swahili arabic somali english, they all have it, no Somali website has all that, that is why it is expensive to run it.

[warsamaale]

i actually like sabahi, very professional and reliable news source.

[Mad_Mullah]

They are the opposite of reliable. They don't understand Somali politics and blame everything on Shabab. They don't understand the Jubbaland issue but think it's Somalis backed by Kenyans vs Shabab. I mean look at their headlines.

 

Al-Shabaab militants have carried out a string of brutal attacks and crimes against civilians in recent weeks -- kidnapping, beheading and robbing Somalis in complete disregard of the sharia law the group purports to uphold.