Somalia

Somalia

Population: 8.5 million
GNI: $N/A million
Debt: $1900 million
Overview:

The appointment of Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein 'Adde' and the illness of President Abdullahi Yusuf offer a better chance of substantive negotiations with the opposition. Ethiopians and the AU force face more terror attacks

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  • Vol 47 No 13
  • 23/06/2006

Islamist takeover

Clans switch sides to overthrow the warlords but will they stay loyal to the Islamic Courts

  • Vol 47 No 11
  • 26/05/2006

Terror in Mogadishu

In its bid to defeat Islamists, the CIA has become entangled in Mogadishu's clan warfare

  • Vol 47 No 8
  • 14/04/2006

Foreign funds

Disquiet is growing over President George Bush's policy in Somalia amid reports of an executive security order to arm a local 'antiterrorist alliance' in contravention of the United Nations' arms embargo. Officially formed on 18 February, the Alliance ...

  • Vol 46 No 18
  • 09/09/2005

Roadblock

The government cannot get to the capital, where Islamists and many others reject it

  • Vol 46 No 18
  • 09/09/2005

Islamists at work

Al Itihaad al Islamia (AIAI, Islamic Unity), the most fervent and best organised of Somalia's Islamist groups, has links to several members of the Transitional Federal Government now in Mogadishu (see Feature), and to the city's powerful and well-armed...

  • Vol 46 No 13
  • 24/06/2005

Diverted flight

After more delays and disputes, some of the would-be government heads home

  • Vol 46 No 13
  • 24/06/2005

The clans line up

The idea of the Transitional Federal Government was to share senior appointments proportionally: four for the big clans (Darod, Rahenweyn, Dir, Hawiye) and one-half for others, such as Gibil Ad or Bantus. It doesn't. Most TFG members were in the Somali...

  • Vol 46 No 11
  • 27/05/2005

Surreal

Somalia's foreign partners are wondering how long its Transitional Federal Government (TFG) can last. Since they painstakingly arranged for its creation, two big things have gone wrong. President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 'elected' last October, has faile...

  • Vol 45 No 16
  • 06/08/2004

Parliament in sight

By squeezing the delegates, mediators hope to get a faction leaders' parliament

  • Vol 44 No 22
  • 07/11/2003

New hopes, new dangers

Politicians try to fill the expanding power vacuum as faction alliances collapse

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