- Vol 51 No 25
- 17th December 2010
A military company run by President Museveni’s brother and some South African mercenaries is being financed by a mystery donor in the Gulf
- Vol 51 No 22
- 5th November 2010
More troops for Amisom, perhaps, but no air or naval blockade for Somalia as the African Union tries to link Al Shabaab and piracy
- Vol 51 No 20
- 8th October 2010
As outsiders worry about terrorism and piracy, social breakdown
in Somalia gets worse
- Vol 51 No 16
- 6th August 2010
African leaders ask why the West prefers to help the Kabul
regime but not the even shakier one in Mogadishu
- Vol 51 No 16
- 6th August 2010
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
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
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
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
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
UN experts identify Asmara’s troublemaking in Somalia but the Security Council may not do much about it