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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 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

The Jihadists' friend

Eritrea now condemns foreign involvement in Somalia. Last year, it sent large quantities of arms and fighters, and a training mission, to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), then in power. In January, President Issayas Afeworki sent a minister to Nairobi to r...

  • Vol 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

Mogadishu clear up

President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed claimed last week, in Addis Ababa, that the situation in Mogadishu was improving. Very few would agree now, after heavy fighting and mass casualties. The level of fighting surprised both the Transitional Federal Government ...

  • Vol 48 No 6
  •  16th March 2007

Peacekeepers under fire

Ethiopia is withdrawing its troops but the transitional government is yet to start serious reconciliation efforts

  • Vol 48 No 6
  •  16th March 2007

Which clan is in charge now?

The two most powerful clans in southern Somalia are the Habr Gidir/Hawiye and the Darod (each with its own sub-clans). Habr Gidir elders and sheikhs led the Islamic Courts Union (ICU); Habr Gidir elders now widely feel - and resent - that the President of...

  • Vol 48 No 3
  •  2nd February 2007

The Addis to Mogadishu axis

AU summiteers have offered half the number of troops required for the peacekeeping force

  • Vol 48 No 2
  •  19th January 2007

Peace but no keepers

To survive, the new government must widen its support base and bid farewell to Ethiopia's soldiers

  • Vol 48 No 2
  •  19th January 2007

Marching across the border

Ethiopia was always confident of an easy victory over the Supreme Islamic Courts Council, despite the SICC's support from international Islamist volunteers and Eritrea. Addis Ababa had planned for no more than a few weeks in Somalia. Once the SICC launche...

  • Vol 47 No 25
  •  15th December 2006

Hotel Mogadishu

The arrest of three Italian journalists by the Supreme Islamic Courts Council on 2 December in Mogadishu points to growing sensitivity to the SICC's jihadist reputation and to reports of Eritrea's military support for its campaign against President Abdull...

  • Vol 47 No 24
  •  1st December 2006

Resolution riddles

The draft resolution on Somalia to be put to the United Nations Security Council by the United States this week, proposes the deployment of a regional force to support Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Baidoa against attacks by the Mogadi...

  • Vol 47 No 23
  •  17th November 2006

Breaking the arms embargo

A UN investigation shows how foreign suppliers of arms and fighters are fuelling a regional conflagration

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