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COVID-Era Federal Relief, Minnesota Fraud, and the Question of Al-Shabaab* Financing
The revelation that COVID-19 era federal relief programs in Minnesota were fleeced by Somali migrants who likely passed the loot to the Al-Shabaab* (affiliated with al-Qaeda*) terror group caused a media Storm in November 2025.
Stable East Africa and Burning Sahel
Despite the US launching the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCPT) in 2005 to fight terrorism in the Sahel, terrorism in this region rose from contributing 1% (2007) to 50% (2023) of global terrorist-related fatalities, attesting to the total failure of the Washington-led top-down approach.
Ankara agreement: preliminary results
The agreement reached between Ethiopia and Somalia in Ankara is, on the one hand, a noteworthy diplomatic success and has, on the other, still not received an in-depth (or at least complex) explanation.
