Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam Merger and their relationship to Al-Qaeda

Al-Shabaab forced the Ras Kambooni group of Hizbul Islam to capitulate and then announced that they would ally themselves with Al-Qaeda. Al-Jazeera Satalight TV interviewed Dr. Afyare Abdi Elmi, a Somali Political Scientist at Qatar University about the implications of these events.