Somalia

Somalia

Population: 8.5 million
GNI: $N/A million
Debt: $1900 million
Overview:

The appointment of Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein 'Adde' and the illness of President Abdullahi Yusuf offer a better chance of substantive negotiations with the opposition. Ethiopians and the AU force face more terror attacks

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  • Vol 49 No 17
  • 22/08/2008

Truculent two

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 ...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  • 18/07/2008

Pirates of the Horn

The brigands of the sea make big money and threaten their country with mass starvation

  • Vol 49 No 13
  • 20/06/2008

Somali ceasefire signed

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...

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

A targeted killing

The United States' killing of Aden Hashi Ayro weakens Al Shabaab and its mentor Sheikh Aweys

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

Missing the target

The US bombs Al Qaida targets and misses while the TFG holds secret negotiations with elders and the Islamist opposition

  • Vol 48 No 24
  • 30/11/2007

A new man in Mogadishu

If new Prime Minister Nur Adde can talk to the opposition and clan leaders, he might just help to stop the slaughter

  • Vol 48 No 21
  • 19/10/2007

Bad history

Those planning a UN peacekeeping mission to Somalia are haunted by the disasters of 15 years ago

  • Vol 48 No 21
  • 19/10/2007

Fall out at the top

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 ...

  • Vol 48 No 21
  • 19/10/2007

How many states for the north?

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...

  • Vol 48 No 13
  • 22/06/2007

Unlikely meeting of minds

President Abdullahi's government makes some progress but it still isn't trusted

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