Vol 50 No 9 | SOMALIA Keep someone else’s peace 1st May 2009 Just as an international conference promises more peacekeepers, an Islamist leader returns to Mogadishu to drive them out The return of Sheikh Hassan Dahir 'Aweys' to Mogadishu on 23 April may prove extremely dangerous for the shaky coalition government under Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (AC Vol 50 No 4...
Vol 50 No 6 | SOMALIA Anti-pirate alliance 20th March 2009 Expensive naval alliances have formed to deter the sea raiders who prey on ships off the Horn Millions of dollars, hundreds of troops and over two dozen ships from around the world chase pirates off the Somali coast (AC Vol 49 No 24). Yet the rate of pirate attacks remains ...
Vol 50 No 6 | SOMALIA The piracy menace 20th March 2009 Ransom payments range from US$500,000 to $3 million. The total since January 2008 is about $50-80 mn. Legal fees for a typical case are around $300,000, plus $100,000 for a ransom ...
Vol 50 No 4 | SOMALIA The Sheik Sharif show 20th February 2009 Goodwill accompanies the new President but few people look at the small print The outsiders who drive Somalia's uncertain peace process do not always see things as Somalis see them. This became apparent with the election on 31 January of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh...
Vol 50 No 4 | SOMALIA Where is Al Shabaab now? 20th February 2009 Al Shabaab looks weak and divided as the new regime takes hold in Mogadishu. This is only half true, though. The departure of Ethiopian troops is a strategic loss for the group. 'J...
Vol 50 No 3 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA Good-bye, maybe 6th February 2009 Ethiopia's troops are gone and another transitional government is installed but the new order is tenuous On 25 January, the last Ethiopian troops withdrew, only three weeks later than planned, from Somalia. They had originally intervened in Somalia in December 2006, at the request of ...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 7 | SOMALIAASIA Somalia tests maritime solidarity 22nd May 2009 The international anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia is the type of cooperative mission that the United States sees as helpful to reduce the strain on its overstretched m...
Vol 49 No 25 | SOMALIA A sheikh returns to the fray 12th December 2008 As Islamist militias prepare for a final strike on Mogadishu, another Islamist leader signs a power-sharing deal and talks of peace The return of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to Mogadishu following the signing of a power-sharing agreement in Djibouti on 26 November will shape the coming stuggle for control of the...
Vol 49 No 25 | SOMALIA Back to Addis 12th December 2008 Ethiopia argues that its withdrawal from Somalia will help the power-sharing talks brokered by the United Nations Special Representative Ahmadou Ould Abdallah. A principal conditio...
Vol 49 No 24 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA Pirates and the lads 28th November 2008 Mercenaries, the media and worried looking men in suits are much exercised by the escalating operations of the Somali pirates patrolling the Gulf of Aden in search of booty. In fac...
