Bi-Weekly Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Brief for East Africa (Kenya & Somalia) Shabaab Al-Mujahideen in Period of January 1st – January 15th, 2023: Tracking and Monitoring Al-Shabaab’s Activity in East Africa

Executive Summary The Harakat Shabaab Al Mujahideen (HSM), popularly known as Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda affiliate remain active in East Africa region, persistently waging attacks both in Somalia and in Kenya. Al-Shabaab’s Islamist insurgency has sown chaos in Somalia for close to two decades and shows no end in sight to the war. In the face...