I recently spent several weeks in the slum districts of Nairobi, researching al-Shabaab’s criminal activities in the Horn of Africa. I expected to learn about the traditional criminal practices of terrorist groups: drugs, arms, money laundering, and perhaps even a regional particularity like sugar smuggling.
What I wasn’t expecting to discover was a highly structured, […]The post Al-Shabaab’s Mata Hari Network appeared first on War on the Rocks.