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- Vol 51 No 5
- 05/03/2010
Target Asmara
UN experts identify Asmara’s troublemaking in Somalia but the Security Council may not do much about it
- Vol 51 No 4
- 19/02/2010
Money muddles
Western governments publicly back Somalia’s ‘moderate Islamist’ government but have not disbursed the promised funds. The Transitional Federal Government (TFG), now besieged in its capital by Al Shabaab, is pressuring donors to pay nearly all its budget. ...
- Vol 51 No 3
- 05/02/2010
Training the trainers
Uganda and the European Union are combining to train security forces for Somalia’s shaky Transitional Federal Government.
- Vol 50 No 25
- 18/12/2009
Operation Atalanta in Pirate Alley
Just a year ago, the European Union launched its first-ever patrol mission in foreign seas to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden (AC Vol 50 No 21). Operation Atalanta contributes up to 12 of the 35 warships currently patrolling in a security cordon from Dj...
- Vol 50 No 23
- 20/11/2009
Al Shabaab targets Eritrea
Al Shabaab, Somalia's main Islamist insurgent movement, has a new country in its sights. Its Spokesperson, Suldan Mohammed Aala Mohammed, has announced the addition of Eritrea to the usual suspects, Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Ug...
- Vol 50 No 21
- 23/10/2009
Jolly Roger justice
As attacks by Somali pirates increase in the Gulf of Aden, the trials of those captured during the last ten months begin in Mombasa
- Vol 50 No 19
- 25/09/2009
American airlift
When United States special forces landed near the Shabaab-held Somalian town of Barawe to assassinate and carry off several members of the Al Shabaab jihadist group on 12 September, they changed the rules of engagement in the war in Somalia. This wil...
- Vol 50 No 18
- 11/09/2009
Dangers and dilemmas in the Horn of Africa
The most dangerous corner of Africa is its north-eastern Horn, where instability reigns and terrorism thrives on the antagonisms of its governments
- Vol 50 No 17
- 28/08/2009
Let my people go
Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will ask the United States to release a Somali terrorist suspect from Guantánamo Bay. Ismail Mahmoud Mohamed was a friend of and former advisor to President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and they worked to...
- Vol 50 No 16
- 07/08/2009
Washington backs the TFG
Even before President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia met United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the first leg of her seven-nation African tour, Washington had made it clear it was ready to supply more assistance to his Transitional...
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