Vol 60 No 5 | BURUNDISOMALIA The cost of war 8th March 2019 After a furious but well-hidden row, Burundi is set to withdraw 1,000 soldiers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) force immediately; 4,532 Burundian troops will rem...
Vol 60 No 4 | SOMALIA Shabaab fight in high gear 22nd February 2019 The Nairobi attack has sparked an intense new round of action by all the combatants in Somalia The Al Shabaab conflict has reached a new level of intensity and bloodshed following the attack in Nairobi on 15 January in which 25 people, including four attackers, were killed. ...
Vol 60 No 2 | SOMALIA Mogadishu lashes out 17th January 2019 Hidden frustrations broke surface when Farmajo expelled the UN envoy, underlining major differences with the international community on the way forward The expulsion of Nicholas Haysom, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative in Somalia, has opened a rift with the powers backing the federal government and financing the m...
Vol 60 No 1 | SOMALIA A fragmentary future 11th January 2019 Farmajo is becoming dictatorial as dissension grows in the international community and prospects for federal unity and isolating Shabaab recede The last year was full of promise of greater change during this year. Regional relations were dominated by the sea-change in policy brought about by Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy ...
Vol 59 No 24 | SOMALIA Poll fight for Farmajo 7th December 2018 A former Shabaab leader stands a good chance of election in South West State and Mogadishu is determined to stop him President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed 'Farmajo' and his government experienced temporary relief on 2 December when the electoral commission supervising South West State's presidenti...
Vol 59 No 22 | SOMALIAUNITED STATES US strikes, Shabaab gains 9th November 2018 US operations increase but the Islamists are showing resilience. The government is trying to manage expectations The most lethal United States drone strike against Al Shabaab in over a year killed about 60 fighters at Aga Adde, near Galharere in the Central Region, on 16 October. The US offen...
Vol 59 No 20 | SOMALIA Shelter for favouritism 12th October 2018 The case of a business manager who lost his job because he was not in the inner circle of President Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed 'Farmajo' is discouraging diaspora investors. The BilI'...
Vol 59 No 19 | SOMALIA Money worries 28th September 2018 The federal patchwork is barely holding together while a new currency launches. Farmajo's absence in New York is raising questions The Finance Minister of the federal government, Abdirahman Bayle, believed he had good reason to congratulate himself at the end of a week of talks with the International Monetary ...
Vol 59 No 17 | ETHIOPIASOMALIA Abiy dials down Pax Ethiopia 10th August 2018 Addis's relations with its neighbours may be changing as radically as those on the domestic front. A new deal with Somalia could be in the offing As soon as he was appointed Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed was as eager to embrace peace and normalisation with neighbouring states as to reform the regime at home. Somalia, bristling ...
Vol 59 No 15 | SOMALIA ISIS’s nemesis 27th July 2018 Al Shabaab offers its Da’ish competitors a simple choice: recant or face execution The early days of Da'ish in Somalia were not auspicious. The leader of Somalia's version of the pan-regional and Middle Eastern Islamist movement also known as 'Islamic State' or I...
