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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 4
  •  20th February 2009

Where is Al Shabaab now?

Al Shabaab looks weak and divided as the new regime takes hold in Mogadishu. This is only half true, though. The departure of Ethiopian troops is a strategic loss for the group. 'Jihad!' was a good slogan for Somalis who saw their country as occupied by a...

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Good-bye, maybe

Ethiopia's troops are gone and another transitional government is installed but the new order is tenuous

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

A sheikh returns to the fray

As Islamist militias prepare for a final strike on Mogadishu, another Islamist leader signs a power-sharing deal and talks of peace

  • Vol 49 No 25
  •  12th December 2008

Back to Addis

Ethiopia argues that its withdrawal from Somalia will help the power-sharing talks brokered by the United Nations Special Representative Ahmadou Ould Abdallah. A principal condition for the participation of Sharif Sheikh Ahmed’s faction of the Alliance fo...

  • Vol 49 No 24
  •  28th November 2008

Pirates and the lads

Mercenaries, the media and worried looking men in suits are much exercised by the escalating operations of the Somali pirates patrolling the Gulf of Aden in search of booty. In fact, the pirates stepped up operations a year ago (AC Vol 49 No 15), but then...

  • Vol 49 No 22
  •  31st October 2008

The youth game gets older

Al Shabaab claims attacks even when they have nothing to do with them, but who are 'The Youth'?

  • Vol 49 No 20
  •  3rd October 2008

Arms and the boys

Somalia's pirates are busy guarding the 33 Ukrainian tanks and other equipment captured on the MV Faina on 25 September. United States' naval vessels surround the ship and the Russian navy is authorised by Somali authorities to use force to liberate the ...

  • Vol 49 No 19
  •  19th September 2008

Pirates afloat

The United Nations World Food Programme has successfully appealed to the European Union for protection of its life-saving cargoes of food aid. On 15 September, the EU’s foreign ministers agreed to set up a coordinating centre for defence against the pirat...

  • Vol 49 No 17
  •  22nd August 2008

Truculent two

Personal rivalries between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Nur Hassan 'Adde' threaten the Transitional Federal Government in Mogadishu and undermine the fragile United Nations-backed negotiations with the Islamist opposition (AC Vol 49 ...

  • Vol 49 No 15
  •  18th July 2008

Pirates of the Horn

The brigands of the sea make big money and threaten their country with mass starvation

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