Al-Shabaab attacks challenge counter terrorism strategies

A destroyed car at the site where a car bomb exploded near the Somali parliament in Mogadishu, Somalia, on January 8, 2020. PHOTO | AFP

The increased number of attacks by Somali terrorist group al Shabaab in Kenya and Somalia could lead to security chiefs rethinking their counter-terrorism policy.

In a year when the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) is considering reducing its troops in Somalia, al-Shabaab has launched several assaults in the two countries since December, killing at least 130 people in the attacks.