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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 41 No 17
  •  1st September 2000

Possible president

Is there a new president in Somalia? Not quite. But Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, who took the oath of office on August 20, is the nearest thing the country has had to a recognised president since the fall of Mohamed Siad Barré in 1991.

  • Vol 41 No 13
  •  23rd June 2000

Time to talk

The Somali National Peace Conference in Djibouti finished six weeks of initial consultations and moved on last week to phase two (AC Vol 41 No 7). Hundreds of participants (some picked by Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh and his team, some self-se...

  • Vol 41 No 7
  •  31st March 2000

Warlords at the gate

More questions face Djibouti's proposed Somalia peace conference: nearly all Somalia's main political organisations have now come out against the gathering, scheduled for 20 April.

  • Vol 41 No 6
  •  17th March 2000

Hope from the north

A new peace plan focuses on civil society but no one agrees how to choose the delegates

  • Vol 40 No 20
  •  8th October 1999

No proxy peace

While many in Somalia push for peace (AC Vol 40 No 19), Ethiopia is pressing its allies for quicker military results against Eritrea's ally, Hussein 'Aydeed'. The 'Somali Peace Alliance', set up in Garowe in August, brings together the Rahenweyne Resistan...

  • Vol 40 No 19
  •  24th September 1999

Building blocks

Reconstructing the state step-by-step is showing results - but outsiders stay sceptical

  • Vol 40 No 12
  •  11th June 1999

Unfunny money

A consignment of notes for Hussein Mohamed 'Aydeed' with a face value of 35 billion Somali shillings (Sosh) due at Baidoa airport has been held up by an Ethiopian invasion. Last weekend, the Rahenweyn Resistance Army and its Ethiopian allies seized the t...

  • Vol 39 No 25
  •  18th December 1998

No nation, new regions

New regional adminstrations and a police force haven't stopped the clan conflicts

  • Vol 39 No 21
  •  23rd October 1998

Somersaults

‘Top-down’ leadership conferences, such as Sodere and Cairo last year (AC Vol 39 No 8) are now out and seem to be being replaced, as many have long hoped, by a ‘bottom-up’ approach of regional administrations built upon local clan agreements.

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