The June 2020 issue of CTC Sentinel includes an article titled "The Limits of 'Shabaab-Care': Militant Governance Amid COVID-19" by Christopher Hockey and Michael Jones, both with the Royal United Services Institute.
Al-Shabaab has proactively established an isolation center and is issuing health advice, the latest extensions of a long-running experiment in militant governance. The pandemic may nevertheless expose intrinsic limitations in al-Shabaab's approach to civic administration.