Many fight for Al-Shabab for money 

Somalia’s president says military forces have made inroads in their fight against Al-Shabab militants but the key to defeating them lies in providing better opportunities for the country’s youth.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Sunday told a gathering of top defense officials and diplomats that 70 percent of his country’s population is under 35 and have grown up in the chaos of a lawless state after the government collapsed in 1991.
He says that’s left them “very, very vulnerable to be recruited by the evil forces” like Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab.
Mohamud says many of those fighting for Al-Shabab “are not there for ideological reasons, they are there for economic reasons ... to feed their families.”
Somalia faces regular Al-Shabab attacks even after driving them from the capital, Mogadishu, in 2011.
Source: Arab News