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    Al-Shabab Overtakes Boko Haram as Africa's Top Threat

    Somalia’s Al-Qaeda affiliate killed 4,300 people in 2016, making it Africa’s biggest militant threat.
    by Conor Gaffey Jun 23, 2017 3 minutes
    Somalis carry away the body of a man killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station adjacent to the seaport in Mogadishu, Somalia on December 11, 2016. Islamic extremist rebels al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.
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    Somali group Al-Shabab, which has ties to al-Qaeda, has spent at least three years in the shadow of Nigeria’s Boko Haram as Africa’s deadliest militant group.

    But new figures suggest that trend is changing. Al-Shabab was responsible for 4,281 casualties in 2016 compared to 3,499 by Boko Haram according to data collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project ( ACLED ) and compiled by the Africa Center, an institution affiliated to the U.S. Department of Defense.

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