Somali militant group Al-Shabaab may have outgrown its reliance on illegal charcoal export for revenue and turned to 'local means', a move that could free the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) from perennial accusations of having a hand in smuggling.
A new report by the UN Panel of Experts on Somalia says the ban imposed to curtail the group's terrorist activities may have lost its steam as the fighters go for alternative, albeit illegal, sources of money.
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