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- Vol 51 No 16
- 06/08/2010
The Afghan effect
African leaders ask why the West prefers to help the Kabul regime but not the even shakier one in Mogadishu
- Vol 51 No 16
- 06/08/2010
Mogadishu's ministry of truth
Somalia's new Information Minister, Abdirahman Omar Osman, wants African Union troops to defend more aggressively the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its 'moderate' Islamist vision. The AU should act to 'prevent further extremism...and preve...
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23/07/2010
Fighting on a new front
The United States’ containment policy has failed and, with its regional ambitions strengthened, Al Shabaab is back on the front foot
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23/07/2010
Secretive Shabaab
Al Shabaab’s political tactics and internal dynamics are deliberately, systematically opaque, on the classic Islamist model. It is both nationalist and avowedly part of the global jihad. Shabaab’s fighters may number anything between 3,000 and 10,000 and ...
- Vol 51 No 6
- 19/03/2010
More troops for Mogadishu
The government has new allies against Al Shabaab but the facts on the ground remain much the same
- Vol 51 No 6
- 19/03/2010
Whitehall strengthens Sharif
No one was left in any doubt about the purpose of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed’s four-day trip to Britain last week. He wanted, he told a 9 March audience at the Karimia Institute, political, economic, humanitarian, military and security support. This in...
- 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...
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