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)....
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 the...
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...
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...
Vol 50 No 18 | DJIBOUTIERITREAETHIOPIASOMALIA Dangers and dilemmas in the Horn of Africa 11th September 2009 The most dangerous corner of Africa is its north-eastern Horn, where instability reigns and terrorism thrives on the antagonisms of its governments The fate of Somalia is in the balance, as the Transitional Federal Government struggles for control against Islamist insurgents. Eritrea and Ethiopia are engaged in an unremitting struggle....
Vol 50 No 17 | SOMALIAUNITED STATES Let my people go 28th August 2009 Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) will ask the United States to release a Somali terrorist suspect from Guantánamo Bay. Ismail Mahmoud Mohamed was a friend of and former...
Vol 50 No 16 | SOMALIAUNITED STATES Washington backs the TFG 7th August 2009 Even before President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia met United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the first leg of her seven-nation African tour, Washington had...
Vol 50 No 11 | SOMALIA Target Mogadishu 29th May 2009 An alliance between Al Shabaab and the Hizbul Islam militias looks determined to seize the capital but their arms suppliers face UN sanctions More than 200 people have been killed and over 50,000 people chased from their homes in this month's offensive by insurgents against President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's regime...
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...
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...
