Report: Al-Shabaab earns $200 million yearly, funds Somalia insurgency

[Deeq A.]

Mogadishu (HOL) — Al-Shabaab has emerged as al-Qaida’s financial lifeline, generating as much as $200 million annually from forced taxation, extortion, and illicit trade to fund its growing military campaign across central and southern Somalia, according to a new counterterrorism assessment.

Source: Hiiraan Online