COVID -19 Pandemic and AlShabab’s Operations
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought the world to a standstill from the time it was discovered in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. There is no cure or vaccine yet that has been discovered by the world epidemiologists. Violent
extremists, however, have not only downplayed the COVID-19 and disregarded the WHO guidelines for prevention from the virus but they have taken advantage of it to mount terrorist attacks on their targets. Harakat al Shabab al Mujahidin (HSM) or al Shabab, the Somalia-based terror group and al Qaida affiliate in East Africa, has bolstered attacks as global attention focuses on fighting the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19).
