A very short BBC report based on AFP:Then as background it cites a source, which alas is a series of PPT in Portuguese by a UK academic expert on the region:One of the victims of the weekend attack was the leader of Monjane village, a local resident told the AFP news agency."They targeted the chief as he had been providing information to the police about the location of al-Shabab in forests," he is quoted as saying.Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-44289512Recent academic research... found that early members of the group, sometimes also called al-Sunna, were followers of a radical Kenyan preacher who was killed in 2012.His followers moved south and settled in Kibiti in southern Tanzania, near the border with Mozambique.
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