Do you know how easy it would be to defeat al shabaab if the locals would snitch on them. A simple operation could eradicate these fools.
1- Move locals forcefully and pay for new homes for them
2- separate them from locals and secure the area
3- Call in airstrikes on them and either they get bombed and die or they run to kenya and at this point you build up the army and set up border control
4- use heat sensors to monitor their movement on the ground
That’s exactly the reason why SL doesn’t have terrorists and Somalia does. It’s the locals a lot of Somalians (people from Somalia ) are every content with terrorist rulers while somalilanders snitch on somebody they don’t recognize in their neighborhood (they’ll come up and ask who you are and decide to snitch based off what you say) Majority of the terrorists are their relatives . It’s a cultural problem down south