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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 49 No 13
  •  20th June 2008

Somali ceasefire signed

The Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia Chairman, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has agreed to a ceasefire, but harder-line militants have rejected it and called for his expulsion from ARS. The opposition ARS is critical to the success of the ceasefire...

  • Vol 49 No 11
  •  23rd May 2008

A targeted killing

The United States' killing of Aden Hashi Ayro weakens Al Shabaab and its mentor Sheikh Aweys

  • Vol 49 No 6
  •  14th March 2008

Missing the target

The US bombs Al Qaida targets and misses while the TFG holds secret negotiations with elders and the Islamist opposition

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

A new man in Mogadishu

If new Prime Minister Nur Adde can talk to the opposition and clan leaders, he might just help to stop the slaughter

  • Vol 48 No 21
  •  19th October 2007

Bad history

Those planning a UN peacekeeping mission to Somalia are haunted by the disasters of 15 years ago

  • Vol 48 No 21
  •  19th October 2007

Fall out at the top

The rift between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi is in full swing. The latest twist came when Attorney General Abdullahi Dahir ordered the arrest of Supreme Court Chairman Yusuf Ali Hirsi, a close ally of the Prime Mini...

  • Vol 48 No 21
  •  19th October 2007

How many states for the north?

Tension between Somaliland (created in 1991) and the much less firmly established Puntland (created 1998) has been running high. On 1 July, yet another state, Maakhir, was inaugurated in northern Somalia and Puntland blamed that, unfairly, on Somaliland. ...

  • Vol 48 No 13
  •  22nd June 2007

Unlikely meeting of minds

President Abdullahi's government makes some progress but it still isn't trusted

  • Vol 48 No 13
  •  22nd June 2007

Warriors by proxy

With Somalia looking more settled, Ethiopia has been looking towards Eritrea, which it sees as the regional spoiler. On 8 June, Addis Ababa wrote to the United Nations Security Council President calling for Chapter VII sanctions against Eritrea, in order ...

  • Vol 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

The great gamble

Ethiopia and others bet on the TFG

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