Solving Somalia’s Food Security Emergency
Two years of poor rainfall, insecurity and rising world food prices have led to a devastating food security emergency in parts of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and probably Eritrea. Somalia is the epicentre...
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Somalia: The London Conference’s Opportunity
A soldier from Burundi serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is seen manning a frontline position in territory recently captured from insurgents in Deynile District along the...
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Jubaland in Jeopardy: The Uneasy Path to State-Building in Somalia
Reproduced with permission of Asempa Limited, publisher of Africa Confidential (www.africa-confidential.com). Original map first appeared in Africa Confidential, Vol. 52, No. 22, 4 November 2011. On 15...
View ArticleSolving Somalia’s Food Security Emergency
Two years of poor rainfall, insecurity and rising world food prices have led to a devastating food security emergency in parts of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and probably Eritrea. Somalia is the epicentre...
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Somalia: The London Conference’s Opportunity
A soldier from Burundi serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is seen manning a frontline position in territory recently captured from insurgents in Deynile District along the...
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Jubaland in Jeopardy: The Uneasy Path to State-Building in Somalia
Reproduced with permission of Asempa Limited, publisher of Africa Confidential (www.africa-confidential.com). Original map first appeared in Africa Confidential, Vol. 52, No. 22, 4 November 2011. On 15...
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Puntland’s Boundary Issues: What Will Abdiweli Gas’s Call for Unity Really Mean?
[With additional research by Abdullahi Abdille] Puntland’s new president, Abdiweli Gas, was a prominent mourner in Mogadishu last week at the graveside of Abdirizak Haji Hussein, a former prime...
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Somalia’s Promised but Problematic National Elections
Residents welcome Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Barawe. 12 October 2014. Reuters. At the “Vision 2016” National Conference in September 2013, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud committed to...
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Al-Shabaab’s Kenyan Ambitions
Members of the hard line al Shabaab Islamist rebel group parade during a military training exercise in Huriwaa district, southern Mogadishu. 5 September, 2010. Reuters. Al-Shabaab’s 2 April attack in...
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Somaliland’s Guurti Sparks a Crisis
Somaliland Independence Day celebrations, 18 May 2014. CRISIS GROUP/Claire Elder The self-declared Republic of Somaliland – a de facto independent state formed from Somalia’s north-western regions – is...
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East Africa’s Sufi Path to Countering Violent Extremism
Sufis perform before breaking their fast on the first Friday of Ramadan in a mosque at Umdowan Ban village outside Khartoum, 11 August 2011. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah Many paths have been tried...
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Galkayo and Somalia’s Dangerous Faultlines
The silhouettes of armed men, some pirates and some homegrown security forces, appear on the horizon in the early morning in the semi-desertic plains near the central Somalia town of Galkayo on 18...
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Somalia: Why is Al-Shabaab Still A Potent Threat?
Young fighters from Al-Shabab come together to count their bullets at a frontline section in Sinaya Neighborhood in Mogadishu, on 13 July 2009. AFP PHOTO/Mohamed DAHIR This year, the armed Islamist...
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Somalia’s Al-Shabaab Down but Far from Out
A Somali soldier takes position at the scene of a suicide attack by al Shabaab militants in capital Mogadishu on 21 June 2015. REUTERS/Feisal Omar Somalia’s militant group, Al-Shabaab, has often defied...
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