Personal rivalries between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
and Prime Minister Nur Hassan 'Adde' threaten the Transitional
Federal Government in Mogadishu and undermine the fragile United
Nations-backed negotiations with the Islamist opposition (AC Vol
...
The brigands of the sea make big money and threaten their country
with mass starvation
The Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia Chairman, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has agreed to a ceasefire, but harder-line militants have rejected it and called for his expulsion from ARS. The opposition ARS is critical to the success of the ceasefire...
The United States' killing of Aden Hashi Ayro weakens Al Shabaab
and its mentor Sheikh Aweys
The US bombs Al Qaida targets and misses while the TFG holds secret negotiations with elders and the Islamist opposition
If new Prime Minister Nur Adde can talk to the opposition and clan leaders, he might just help to stop the slaughter
Those planning a UN peacekeeping mission to Somalia are haunted by the disasters of 15 years ago
The rift between President Abdullahi Yusuf
Ahmed and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi is in full
swing. The latest twist came when Attorney General Abdullahi
Dahir ordered the arrest of Supreme Court Chairman Yusuf
Ali Hirsi, a close ally of the Prime ...
Tension between Somaliland (created in 1991) and
the much less firmly established Puntland (created 1998) has been
running high. On 1 July, yet another state, Maakhir, was inaugurated
in northern Somalia and Puntland blamed that, unfairly, on Somalilan...
President Abdullahi's government makes some progress but it still
isn't trusted
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