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Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, Visiting Professor at the African Leadership Centre, King's College London

Al-Shabaab in Somalia has resisted military force: now is the time for a new strategy

A Somali soldier looks out from a military base where a US special operations soldier was killed by a mortar attack south of Mogadishu in 2018. Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP via Getty Images

In October 2022, Somalia’s capital Mogadishu suffered yet another massive suicidal attack. More than 100 people were killed. Hundreds more were wounded and thousands will have been traumatised by an attack claimed by the Somali insurgent group Al-Shabaab.

The attack was carried out on the fifth anniversary of the most destructive suicide attack in Somalia’s history, on 14 October 2017. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for that one too.

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