Somalia: Report: Kenyan Military ‘in Business’ with Al-Shabab

Nov 12, 2015 | Ty McCormick, Foreign Policy
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A new report says Kenya’s military has done a brisk business in sugar and charcoal in Kismayo, Somalia, since pushing al-Shabab from the southern port city in 2012, but the trade has become a key financial lifeline for the terrorist group it is there to fight. Published by the nonpartisan watchdog organization Journalists for Justice, the report accuses top Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) officials within the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) of being involved in an illicit export operation worth between $200 and $400 million per year. AMISOM is the multinational peace enforcement mission battling al-Shabab