Vol 42 No 15 | SOMALIA Transition to where? 27th July 2001 Though recognised by the Organisation of African Unity, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development and United Nations, the Transitional National Government (TNG, AC Vol 42 No 10) ...
Vol 42 No 10 | SOMALIA Independence vote 18th May 2001 Battling a powerful lobby for postponement, President of Somaliland Mohamed Ibrahim Egal is determined to hold a long-delayed constitutional referendum on 31 May. He wants voters t...
Vol 41 No 17 | SOMALIA Possible president 1st September 2000 Is there a new president in Somalia? Not quite. But Abdulkassim Salat Hassan, who took the oath of office on August 20, is the nearest thing the country has had to a recognised pre...
Vol 41 No 13 | DJIBOUTISOMALIA Time to talk 23rd June 2000 The Somali National Peace Conference in Djibouti finished six weeks of initial consultations and moved on last week to phase two (AC Vol 41 No 7). Hundreds of participants (some pi...
Vol 41 No 7 | SOMALIA Warlords at the gate 31st March 2000 More questions face Djibouti's proposed Somalia peace conference: nearly all Somalia's main political organisations have now come out against the gathering, scheduled for 20 April.
Vol 41 No 6 | SOMALIA Hope from the north 17th March 2000 A new peace plan focuses on civil society but no one agrees how to choose the delegates Somalis have high hopes of the peace conference scheduled for 20 April to 5 May. It is very much a Djibouti government initiative: it is to be held in the country and the proposals...
Vol 40 No 20 | SOMALIA No proxy peace 8th October 1999 While many in Somalia push for peace (AC Vol 40 No 19), Ethiopia is pressing its allies for quicker military results against Eritrea's ally, Hussein 'Aydeed'. The 'Somali Peace All...
Vol 40 No 19 | SOMALIA Building blocks 24th September 1999 Reconstructing the state step-by-step is showing results - but outsiders stay sceptical Countless peace conferences have failed to pacify Somalia, including the latest, in Cairo in December 1997, whose collapse seemed to condemn the country to yet more clan wars and f...
Vol 40 No 12 | SOMALIA Unfunny money 11th June 1999 A consignment of notes for Hussein Mohamed 'Aydeed' with a face value of 35 billion Somali shillings (Sosh) due at Baidoa airport has been held up by an Ethiopian invasion. Last w...
Vol 39 No 25 | SOMALIA No nation, new regions 18th December 1998 New regional adminstrations and a police force haven't stopped the clan conflicts A peace settlement still seems as far away as ever in Somalia, with no firm indication that any promised national reconciliation conference will take place in the foreseeable fut...