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How Al-Shabaab profits from illicit sugar trade across Somalia-Kenya border |
2022-12-15 |
Colourful maps, diagrams, tables at the link. [Garowe] Illicit sugar trade from Somalia to neighboring Kenya could be the highest source of revenue for the al-Shabaab![]() krazed killers, a report published by the Global Initiative Network suggests, noting the amount of taxation imposed on traders smuggling goods to the East African nation. In what could be a national security threat to Kenya, it has routinely become possible for smugglers to use the Kenya-Somalia border unnoticed, even as the two countries delay opening the border. Kenya had closed down the border as a mitigation measure for increased al-Shabaab activities in the northeastern part of the country. |
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