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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 47 No 23
  •  17th November 2006

Turki's landing

Sheikh Hassan Abdullah Hamid Turki, leading radical in Somalia's Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) and high on the United States' terrorist list, is reported to have been wounded in recent fighting in Buuale. This follows a very bizarre episode at Nai...

  • Vol 47 No 22
  •  3rd November 2006

Beyond the Horn

Mogadishu's Islamists threaten Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti, as well as their own country

  • Vol 47 No 20
  •  6th October 2006

Radio row

In Vol 47 No 16, Africa Confidential reported that the BBC Somali Service and its head, Yusuf Garad, had been criticised for supporting the Supreme Islamic Courts Council regime in Mogadishu. Our correspondents have heard such criticisms from former and s...

  • Vol 47 No 18
  •  8th September 2006

A threat to the Horn and beyond

Rising tension between the regimes of President Yusuf and Chairman Aweys could escalate into a regional war

  • Vol 47 No 18
  •  8th September 2006

Mission Mogadishu

An American private security company, Select Armor, has been planning military operations in support of President Abdullahi Yusuf's Transitional Federal Government in Somalia and raising questions about an attack on Mogadishu, according to documents obtai...

  • Vol 47 No 13
  •  23rd June 2006

Islamist takeover

Clans switch sides to overthrow the warlords but will they stay loyal to the Islamic Courts

  • Vol 47 No 11
  •  26th May 2006

Terror in Mogadishu

In its bid to defeat Islamists, the CIA has become entangled in Mogadishu's clan warfare

  • Vol 47 No 8
  •  14th April 2006

Foreign funds

Disquiet is growing over President George Bush's policy in Somalia amid reports of an executive security order to arm a local 'antiterrorist alliance' in contravention of the United Nations' arms embargo. Officially formed on 18 February, the Alliance for...

  • Vol 46 No 18
  •  9th September 2005

Roadblock

The government cannot get to the capital, where Islamists and many others reject it

  • Vol 46 No 18
  •  9th September 2005

Islamists at work

Al Itihaad al Islamia (AIAI, Islamic Unity), the most fervent and best organised of Somalia's Islamist groups, has links to several members of the Transitional Federal Government now in Mogadishu (see Feature), and to the city's powerful and well-armed Is...

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