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Somalia
Population: 9.3 mn.
GDP: 0.9 bn.
Debt: 3.7 bn.
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Al Shabaab will target Kenya with terrorist attacks while soldiers from Kenya and Ethiopia, helped by the USA and France, step up their interventions. Little new is expected from UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Somalia conference in February. 

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  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

The war goes regional

In Africa Confidential Vol 53 No 1, we wrote that Al Qaida commander Fazul Abdullah Mohamed had been killed by a United States drone in June 2011 (‘The war goes regional’). In fact, Somali troops shot him dead at a road-block. Kenyan Saleh Nabhan was the ...

  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

The war goes regional

Intervention by Kenya and Ethiopia will drive Al Shabaab from its strongholds but won’t produce a viable government

  • Vol 52 No 25
  •  16th December 2011

Explore Somaliland

Somaliland has launched an aggressive effort to attract oil companies. At the African Oil Week conference in Cape Town last month, the Minister of Mining, Energy and Water Resources, Hussein Abdi Dualeh, wooed foreign oil and mining investors who, the gov...

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

It rained on their invasion

The war in Somalia gives President Mwai Kibaki’s government a leading role for which it looks ill-prepared

  • Vol 52 No 24
  •  2nd December 2011

What’s in Somalia for Ethiopia

Ethiopian troops have gone into Somalia to support the Kenyan deployment, although Prime Minister Meles Zenawi remains sceptical about the operation. Ethiopia wants to maintain its regional role and worries about its diminishing influence on Somali policy...

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

Confused war aims cause alarm

Kenya’s military incursion into Somalia is less than a month old but is already the subject of contradictory statements by the government and its Western allies. Al Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen is under threat from the Kenya Armed Forces and their alli...

  • Vol 52 No 22
  •  4th November 2011

Kenya’s Somali proxies

Kenya’s confusion over its war aims proceeds in part from deep divisions within the elites and the fact that key actors support different Somali forces who have nothing in common except opposition to Al Shabaab.

  • Vol 52 No 21
  •  21st October 2011

Kibaki gambles on regional war with Al Shabaab

After chasing kidnappers across the border, the Kenyan army is digging in for the longer term in Somalia

  • Vol 52 No 20
  •  7th October 2011

Al Shabaab sets the agenda

Little appears to connect the UN-brokered road map for political reconciliation with the ambitions of Al Shabaab or Western strategists

  • Vol 52 No 17
  •  26th August 2011

Al Shabaab – neither gone nor forgotten

The drought has weakened the Islamist militia only temporarily and the political threat to the region is as serious as ever

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