Why Mobilizing tribal militia is the last hope to bring Al-Shabaab to an end?
Somali government with the support of US and African union troops has been fighting the Al-Shabaab insurgency for well over a decade. Repeatedly ground and aerial combats had only bear limited progress countering al-Shabaab since the insurgency dominate and rule vast rural areas in which conducting deadly attacks on Somali major cities have been largely planned. Fallowing this -local militia participation has been viewed as a crucial part in the fight against al-Shabaab since Somali national forces backed by African union forces which makes up together about 40,000 troops with vast resources failed to defeat al-Shabaab. The war with the al-Shabaab insurgency dragged on sixteen years of fruitless which has cost countless lives and derail Somali’s state building, federal government seek alternative tools other than direct confrontation to ease the burden and defeat al-Shabaab in an effective way. Initiatives led by representative of a legislative constituencies “MPs” b...
