Al-Shabaab and Foreign Involvement

I contributed a brief analysis on 20 February 2012 titled International Efforts to Counter Al-Shabaab to the e-International Relations website, reputedly the world's leading website for students of international relations. The analysis focuses on the military intervention in Somalia by the African Union force, Kenya, Ethiopia, and the United States on behalf of the Transitional Federal Government and on foreign jihadis on behalf of al-Shabaab.

For another recent analysis of al-Shabaab on the same website by Kenyan professor Macharia Munene at the United States International University in Nairobi see The Challenge of Al-Shabaab.