Weekly Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Brief for East Africa (Kenya & Somalia) Shabaab Al-Mujahideen in Period of March 1st – March 5th, 2021: Tracking and Monitoring Al-Shabaab’s Activity in East Africa

Executive Summary The Salafi-jihadi movement, which includes Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, is active across northern, eastern, and western Africa and is expanding and deepening its presence on the continent. In East Africa, Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab continue to mount attacks in its home-base of Somalia and sporadically staging low-scale attack in Kenya-Somali frontier areas/prefectures. The...