| Country: | Zimbabwe |
| Details of Formation: | There is no information how the group was created. Calling itself the Al-Shabab, after the notoriously bloodthirsty Somalian based Islamic terror group, sources first mentioned it in September 2012. |
| Details of Termination: | In January 2020, the police conducted an operation to arrest illegal gold panners and their militias. |
| Purpose: | The group claims to promote ZANU-PF’s controversial indigenisation drive. They evict shop owners in Mbizo from their business premises and attack opposition members on behalf of ZANU-PF party politicians. The group is also suspected of running gold trade for President Mnangagwa. |
| Organisation: | The group is commanded by Tapiwa Muto, a ZANU-PF youth officer. The group has links to the State Security minister Owen Ncube and other ZANU-PF politicians from the Midlands. |
| Weapons and Training: | The group is armed with machetes, guns and spears. |
| Size: | no information |
| Reason for Membership: | no information |
| Treatment of Civilians: | The group assaults and murders illegal mining rivals and civilians. |
| Other Information: | The group members are gold panners in Kwekwe. |
| References: | Information was taken from news sources listed in the PGMD |