Social media recently revealed that al-Shabab’s revenues in 2020 amounted to 120 million dollars. According to the report, al-Shabab formed an indirect government in Somalia alongside the federal government, which collects most of this money from taxes and other extortion money.
Al-Shabab's revenue in Somalia also accounts for nearly two-thirds of the total federal government revenue, and 65% of government tax revenue. A Somali intelligence official told the New York Times that al-Shabab charged $90 per container and $150 per container at the Mogadishu port.
Young people receive large sums of money from Farmajo through Fahd Yassin, a member of Al-Shabab, and use them for personal gain, such as attacking politicians with differing opinions in bombings and assassinations, and using them to destabilize the country. elections.
The 2021 federal government budget, released after the report, states that the federal government's local revenue for 2020 was $269 million, of which $182 million was local taxes, nearly two-thirds of the Somali federal government's total revenue, and 65% of the federal government's tax revenue. , Farmajo and Fahd Yassin were accused of being involved in the activities of the youth and using them to serve their own interests, he sent more troops and weapons to Galmudug to end the Sunnis so that they would not fight the youth and continue to slaughter the poor.
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