In Somalia, clans define the relationship between people and all actors in the society. The connections of the new group to the Ali Suleiban sub-clan enabled it to profit from the clan’s links ...

If you multiply this number by all the Somali clans and sub-clans, roughly 10,000 students graduate every two years from these indoctrination camps across the country. But the clans are now resisting.

Before the establishment of the Islamic State in Somalia in 2015, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab had established itself in the north. The small group had extensive connections to smuggling ...