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 44 No 22
  • 07/11/2003

Al Qaida warning

Usama bin Laden's Al Qaida network could be preparing to attack Western targets in Africa for a third time, a panel of experts warned the United Nations Security Council last week. Surface-to-air missiles and explosives may have been smuggled into Somalia...

  • Vol 44 No 16
  • 08/08/2003

Arta I, Arta II

As the warlords talk on in Nairobi, their credibility gap is growing

  • Vol 44 No 5
  • 07/03/2003

Playing by the rules

After ten years of neglect, the United Nations arms embargo on Somalia is finally seeing action. The embargo was introduced in January 1992 but only last year did the UN attempt to give it force, by appointing a panel of experts. Ernst Jan Hogendoorn (Net...

  • Vol 43 No 12
  • 14/06/2002

And the arms flow on

New arms imports are likely to fuel new fighting, despite the UN embargo

  • Vol 43 No 10
  • 17/05/2002

Separate & sovereign

The unrecognised Republic of Somaliland proved its durability on 3 May, with the peaceful succession to President Mohamed Ibrahim Egal.

  • Vol 42 No 23
  • 23/11/2001

Moving target

A state in turmoil offers no safe haven for terrorists feeling the onslaught in Afghanistan

  • Vol 42 No 22
  • 09/11/2001

Usama's allies

Somalia is moving up the agenda: the United States believes Al Qaida may have used Al Itahaad's bases there as operational staging posts. In particular, that Al Itahaad operatives played a key role in ferrying money and materiel for Al Qaida's 1998 bombin...

  • Vol 42 No 15
  • 27/07/2001

Transition to where?

Though recognised by the Organisation of African Unity, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development and United Nations, the Transitional National Government (TNG, AC Vol 42 No 10) controls just a few Mogadishu streets. Despite a recent planeload of arms (...

  • Vol 42 No 10
  • 18/05/2001

Independence vote

Battling a powerful lobby for postponement, President of Somaliland Mohamed Ibrahim Egal is determined to hold a long-delayed constitutional referendum on 31 May. He wants voters to back a basic law confirming the independence his government proclaimed in...

  • Vol 41 No 17
  • 01/09/2000

Possible president

Is there a new president in Somalia? Not quite. But Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, who took the oath of office on August 20, is the nearest thing the country has had to a recognised president since the fall of Mohamed Siad Barré in 1991.

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