Charcoal Trade Helps Finance Al-Shabaab

From The Official Blog of Amb. David H. Shinn Wed Nov 19 2014, 20:18:00

Foreign Affairs published on 18 November 2014 a brief report titled "Black Market: How the Charcoal Trade Fuels Al-Shabab" by Tom Keatinge, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.  The article underscores the degree to which the charcoal trade finances the operations of al-Shabaab in Somalia.

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