Recent media reports quote the U.S. Ambassador to Somalia saying that Al-Shabaab has now lost roughly one third of its territory in the country. In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, David Newman, RANE’s Global Security Analyst, discusses Al-Shabaab’s territorial losses in Somalia and the prospects for the country’s counterinsurgency strategy.

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