Weekly East Africa Counterterrorism Intelligence Brief in Period of July 17th – July 24th: Tracking and Monitoring Al-Shabaab’s Activity in East Africa (Kenya and Somalia)

Increased Al-Shabaab activities continue to be recorded in East Africa region. The Al-Qaeda aligned Islamist militant group notably has especially targeted Somalia and Kenya in those attacks. There has been a significant rise in Al-Shabaab attacks from across the regions of Somalia and beyond. The militants’ group is exploiting security gaps caused by the surging...