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Name: Advance of Al-Shabaab

Type: Event

Start: 2008 AD

End: 2015 AD

Parent: Islamic Insurgency Phase

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Were a series of operations by Al-Shabaab, a Salafi-jihadist military and political organisation, that expanded its territories, during the Somali Civil War.

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  • December 2008: After the Ethiopian withdrawal from Somalia, the southern half of the country quickly fell into the hands of radical Islamist rebels. Sharia law is therefore enforced in areas under the control of Al-Shabaab militiamen.
  • October 2015: Somali Political Situation as of December 25th 2006.
  • February 2011: By January 2011 Al-Shabaab contolled central Somalia.

    • Selected Sources

  • Betts, A. (2013): Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement, Cornell University Press, p. 139
  • Somali land 2006 12 25. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 7 April 2024 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Somali_land_2006_12_25.png

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