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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 46 No 13
  •  24th June 2005

Diverted flight

After more delays and disputes, some of the would-be government heads home

  • Vol 46 No 13
  •  24th June 2005

The clans line up

The idea of the Transitional Federal Government was to share senior appointments proportionally: four for the big clans (Darod, Rahenweyn, Dir, Hawiye) and one-half for others, such as Gibil Ad or Bantus. It doesn't. Most TFG members were in the Somali Re...

  • Vol 46 No 11
  •  27th May 2005

Surreal

Somalia's foreign partners are wondering how long its Transitional Federal Government (TFG) can last. Since they painstakingly arranged for its creation, two big things have gone wrong. President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 'elected' last October, has failed t...

  • Vol 45 No 16
  •  6th August 2004

Parliament in sight

By squeezing the delegates, mediators hope to get a faction leaders' parliament

  • Vol 44 No 22
  •  7th November 2003

New hopes, new dangers

Politicians try to fill the expanding power vacuum as faction alliances collapse

  • Vol 44 No 22
  •  7th November 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
  •  8th August 2003

Arta I, Arta II

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

  • Vol 44 No 5
  •  7th March 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
  •  14th June 2002

And the arms flow on

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

  • Vol 43 No 10
  •  17th May 2002

Separate & sovereign

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

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