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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 50 No 21
  •  23rd October 2009

Jolly Roger justice

As attacks by Somali pirates increase in the Gulf of Aden, the trials of those captured during the last ten months begin in Mombasa

  • Vol 50 No 19
  •  25th September 2009

American airlift

When United States special forces landed near the Shabaab-held Somalian town of Barawe to assassinate and carry off several members of the Al Shabaab jihadist group on 12 September, they changed the rules of engagement in the war in Somalia. This will fo...

  • Vol 50 No 18
  •  11th September 2009

Dangers and dilemmas in the Horn of Africa

The most dangerous corner of Africa is its north-eastern Horn, where instability reigns and terrorism thrives on the antagonisms of its governments

  • Vol 50 No 17
  •  28th August 2009

Let my people go

Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will ask the United States to release a Somali terrorist suspect from Guantánamo Bay. Ismail Mahmoud Mohamed was a friend of and former advisor to President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and they worked togeth...

  • Vol 50 No 16
  •  7th August 2009

Washington backs the TFG

Even before President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia met United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the first leg of her seven-nation African tour, Washington had made it clear it was ready to supply more assistance to his Transitional Fed...

  • Vol 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

Target Mogadishu

An alliance between Al Shabaab and the Hizbul Islam militias looks determined to seize the capital but their arms suppliers face UN sanctions

  • Vol 50 No 9
  •  1st May 2009

Keep someone else’s peace

Just as an international conference promises more peacekeepers, an Islamist leader returns to Mogadishu to drive them out

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

Anti-pirate alliance

Expensive naval alliances have formed to deter the sea raiders who prey on ships off the Horn

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

The piracy menace

Ransom payments range from US$500,000 to $3 million. The total since January 2008 is about $50-80 mn. Legal fees for a typical case are around $300,000, plus $100,000 for a ransom negotiator. Delivering a payment costs $1 mn. for ex-military guards and th...

  • Vol 50 No 4
  •  20th February 2009

The Sheik Sharif show

Goodwill accompanies the new President but few people look at the small print

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