Al-Shabaab and the sources of its resilience and resurgence: Cold War legacies and Jihadism in Somalia

This study examines the continued development and survival of the group, Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahidin, commonly known as al-Shabaab – which emerged in 2006 as the militant wing of Somalia’s Islamic Courts Union and became an independent group in 2007. The group has survived in spite of the fact t...

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Main Author: Gardiner, Richard
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Rhodes University 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63833