A local elder, Mr. Nuh Abdale Nunow told radio Bar-kulan that the militia is also forcing them to financially support their mission Kismayo (Sunatimes) Al-shabab militia group is collecting livestock from the normads living in the reserves of the Lower Juba region in Southern Somalia.

Al-shabab representatives who are taking away the animals contrary to the will of the owners claim that they are collecting the annual Islamic Zakat.

A local elder, Mr. Nuh Abdale Nunow told radio Bar-kulan that the militia is also forcing them to financially support their mission which they called the Jihad they are carrying out in Somalia.

Some of the livestock keepers in the lower Juba regions have already started fleeing their area where Al-shabab is carrying out the exercise of collecting Zakat by force to support their mission.

Most of the nomads who originally came from the North Eastern province of Kenya and the Gedo region in Somalia said that they will return to their former grazing areas to escape the harsh rule of Al-shabab.