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Vol 66 No 2

Published 24th January 2025


Somalia

Unity preserved but security lost

The damage caused by Ethiopia’s MoU has receded but political prospects are poor and morale in the national security forces is at rock bottom

If there are prospects for an upturn in 2025, it’s only because security, morale and international coherence could hardly have been worse in 2024. Ethiopia fractured the international consensus on the indivisibility of Somalia with its Memorandum of Understanding with Somaliland, while opportunities to consolidate progress against Al Shabaab were squandered and the Somali polity descended into new levels of recrimination.

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