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Somalia
Population:	9.3 mn.
GDP:	0.9 bn.
Debt:	3.7 bn.
Overview:	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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Found 103 articles.

Vol 52 No 17
26th August 2011

The hits against Al Shabaab

Officers of the Haraka al Shabaab al Mujahideen killed January-July 2011. A tentative list; the full number may reach 50.

Vol 52 No 16
5th August 2011

Politics and posturing

People starve, aid is inadequate, relief agencies are spurned and the region’s insecurities fester

Vol 52 No 12
10th June 2011

The view and the cash from Arabia

The cash that Arab states are offering Somali politicians is doing little for regional stability

Vol 52 No 9
29th April 2011

Bluff and bluster

Pirates in the Horn are stepping up operations and threatening more ships but the international response looks weak and divided

Vol 52 No 9
29th April 2011

Signs that piracy is getting worse are numerous and stark. They include higher ransoms, longer detentions of vessels and crews, and the use of more and often larger mother ships, leading to seizures over a vastly greater area. Violence is now more fr...

Vol 52 No 1
7th January 2011

The TFG’s August deadline

Outsiders prop up a regime which moves slowly, if at all, towards a constitution and legitimate rule

Vol 51 No 25
17th December 2010

New guns on the block

A military company run by President Museveni’s brother and some South African mercenaries is being financed by a mystery donor in the Gulf

Vol 51 No 22
5th November 2010

UN rejects AU blockade plea

More troops for Amisom, perhaps, but no air or naval blockade for Somalia as the African Union tries to link Al Shabaab and piracy

Vol 51 No 20
8th October 2010

In search of policy

As outsiders worry about terrorism and piracy, social breakdown in Somalia gets worse

Vol 51 No 16
6th August 2010

The Afghan effect

African leaders ask why the West prefers to help the Kabul regime but not the even shakier one in Mogadishu

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