Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group LABOUR * The ICU and the

* The ICU and the Rural Question: 1920–26

tensions in the mid-twentieth century were mounting between its black inhabitants and the whites

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her ex-husband and ones she forms with a variety of unsuitable men in her search for love and fulfilment during this adventure of a lifetime

and in virulent reaction to the first black president of the country

Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group LABOUR * The ICU and theSince early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only self proclaimed branch of al Qaeda to have gained acceptance (and praise) from Ayman al Zawahiri and 'AQ centre' in Afghanistan. Itself an offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, which split in 2006, Shabaab has imposed Sharia law and is also heavily influenced by local clan structures within Somalia itself.