Vol 51 No 15 | SOMALIAUGANDA Secretive Shabaab 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 ...
Vol 51 No 6 | SOMALIA More troops for Mogadishu 19th March 2010 The government has new allies against Al Shabaab but the facts on the ground remain much the same The Transitional Federal Government has a new component. On 15 March in Addis Ababa, the TFG signed an agreement with Ahlu Sunna wal Jama’a, the council (and militia) that administ...
Vol 51 No 6 | SOMALIA Whitehall strengthens Sharif 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...
Vol 51 No 5 | ERITREASOMALIA Target Asmara 5th March 2010 UN experts identify Asmara’s troublemaking in Somalia but the Security Council may not do much about it A new United Nations investigation, still under wraps but seen by Africa Confidential, will lead to further quarrels in the UN Security Council over what to do about Eritrea’s trou...
Vol 51 No 4 | SOMALIA Money muddles 19th February 2010 Western governments publicly back Somalia’s ‘moderate Islamist’ government but have not disbursed the promised funds. The Transitional Federal Government (TFG), now besieged in its...
Vol 51 No 3 | SOMALIAUGANDAEUROPEAN UNION Training the trainers 5th February 2010 Uganda and the European Union are combining to train security forces for Somalia’s shaky Transitional Federal Government.
Vol 50 No 25 | SOMALIA Operation Atalanta in Pirate Alley 18th December 2009 Just a year ago, the European Union launched its first-ever patrol mission in foreign seas to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden (AC Vol 50 No 21). Operation Atalanta contributes up...
Vol 50 No 23 | ERITREASOMALIA Al Shabaab targets Eritrea 20th November 2009 Al Shabaab, Somalia's main Islamist insurgent movement, has a new country in its sights. Its Spokesperson, Suldan Mohammed Aala Mohammed, has announced the addition of Eritrea to t...
Vol 50 No 21 | KENYASOMALIA Jolly Roger justice 23rd October 2009 As attacks by Somali pirates increase in the Gulf of Aden, the trials of those captured during the last ten months begin in Mombasa The trials of suspected Somali pirates captured by United States and European Union navies began on 8 October in Mombasa. One hundred Somalis accused of attacks against cargo ships...
Vol 50 No 19 | SOMALIAUNITED STATESSOMALILAND American airlift 25th September 2009 When United States special forces landed near the Shabaab-held Somalian town of Barawe to assassinate and carry off several members of the Al Shabaab jihadist group on 12 Septembe...
