The jihadis have ongoing sources of funding from people and groups who believe that they embody true Islam and are doing the work of Allah.
“Death toll from Somalia twin bombings climbs to 100,” AFP, October 30, 2022:
MOGADISHU: The number of people killed in an attack on Saturday (Oct 29) at a busy intersection in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday.
“So far, people who died have reached 100 and 300 are wounded, and the number for both the death and wounded continues to increase,” he said after visiting the bombing location.
Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction, followed by gunfire in an attack targeting Somalia’s education ministry….
The attack took place at the same busy junction where a truck packed with explosives blew up on October 14, 2017, killing 512 people and injuring more than 290….
The jihadists have been seeking to overthrow the fragile foreign-backed government in Mogadishu for about 15 years.
Its fighters were driven out of the capital in 2011 by an African Union force but the group still controls swathes of countryside and continues to wage deadly strikes on civilian and military targets.
In August, the group launched a 30-hour gun and bomb attack on the popular Hayat hotel in Mogadishu, killing 21 people and wounding 117.
Mohamud, who was elected in May, vowed after the August siege to wage “all-out war” on the Islamists….
Somalia – like its neighbours in the Horn of Africa – is in the grip of the worst drought in more than 40 years. Four failed rainy seasons have wiped out livestock and crops.
The conflict-wracked nation is considered one of the most vulnerable to climate change but is particularly ill-equipped to cope with the crisis as it battles the deadly Islamist insurgency.
mick says
The jihadists being Al Shabaab, who are funded by Qatar?
Qatar and Al Shabaab supported the recently ousted president Faramaajo.
Alkflaeda says
I am a sceptic about climate change – but the logical way to cut off jihadi funding is to reduce oil consumption. Less revenue to Middle Eastern countries = less money available for donations to Islamic terror.
James Lincoln says
Alkflaeda,
Following the first OPEC oil embargo in 1973, the United States should have started a crash Manhattan Project style program to permanently stop any need for oil from muslim majority countries. ALL forms of domestic energy production should have been on the table.
We didn’t do it – and got hit with another disruption in supply occurring in 1979 following the Iranian revolution..
Finally, under Pres. Trump, we were the leading producer of energy in the world.
Now, under “bedpan Biden”, we beg the Saudis for oil…