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Is al-Shabab running a parallel state in Somalia?

The death of the mayor of Mogadishu in Somalia two weeks ago has got people talking about the mafia-like influence of al-Shabab.

The Islamist militant group is known to have a sophisticated web of spies, which it pays for information. But how does it manage this?

鈥淚t has the ability to collect revenue from major businesses and institutions in the country,鈥 a leading opposition politician, Abdirahman Warsame, has told 成人快手 Newsday.

鈥淧eople pay taxes to al-Shabab individually,鈥 he added.

Listen to what else he had to say about how the al-Qaeda-linked group functions.

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