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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 51 No 16
  •  6th August 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 prevent w...

  • Vol 51 No 15
  •  23rd July 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
  •  23rd July 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
  •  19th March 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
  •  19th March 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
  •  5th March 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
  •  19th February 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
  •  5th February 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
  •  18th December 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...

  • Vol 50 No 23
  •  20th November 2009

Al Shabaab targets Eritrea

Al Shabaab, Somalia's main Islamist insurgent movement, has a new country in its sights. Its Spokesperson, Suldan Mohammed Aala Mohammed, has announced the addition of Eritrea to the usual suspects, Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda...

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