As Islamist militias prepare for a final strike on Mogadishu, another Islamist leader signs a power-sharing deal and talks of peace
Ethiopia argues that its withdrawal from Somalia will help the power-sharing talks brokered by the United Nations Special Representative Ahmadou Ould Abdallah. A principal condition for the participation of Sharif Sheikh Ahmed’s faction of the Alliance fo...
Mercenaries, the media and worried looking men in suits are much exercised by the escalating operations of the Somali pirates patrolling the Gulf of Aden in search of booty. In fact, the pirates stepped up operations a year ago (AC Vol 49 No 15), but then...
Al Shabaab claims attacks even when they have nothing to do with them, but who are 'The Youth'?
Somalia's pirates are busy guarding the 33 Ukrainian tanks
and other equipment captured on the MV Faina on 25 September.
United States' naval vessels surround the ship and the
Russian navy is authorised by Somali authorities to use
force to liberate ...
The United Nations World Food Programme has successfully appealed to
the European Union for protection of its life-saving cargoes of food
aid. On 15 September, the EU’s foreign ministers agreed to set up a
coordinating centre for defence against the pi...
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
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