Vol 49 No 15 | SOMALIA Pirates of the Horn 18th July 2008 The brigands of the sea make big money and threaten their country with mass starvation Somalia faces a worsening food crisis, largely ignored in the graphic reports of clashes between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed's regime and its nationalist and Islamist opponents (AC Vol...
Vol 49 No 13 | SOMALIA Somali ceasefire signed 20th June 2008 The Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia Chairman, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has agreed to a ceasefire, but harder-line militants have rejected it and called for his expulsion...
Vol 49 No 11 | SOMALIA A targeted killing 23rd May 2008 The United States' killing of Aden Hashi Ayro weakens Al Shabaab and its mentor Sheikh Aweys Before dawn on 1 May, two United States' AC130 gunships from Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti destroyed a house in Dusamareb, central Somalia, not far from the Ethiopian border....
Vol 49 No 6 | SOMALIA Missing the target 14th March 2008 The US bombs Al Qaida targets and misses while the TFG holds secret negotiations with elders and the Islamist opposition On 3 March, a United States' cruise missile hit a home on the outskirts of Dobley, a small crossing point on the Somalia-Kenya border. Dobley is in an...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 | SOMALIAASIA Pirates of the Red Sea 28th October 2008 India has ambitious plans to coordinate maritime security across the Indian Ocean Asia’s navies are planning tougher action to combat the menace of piracy along Somalia’s coastline and in the Red Sea region. The well-organised pirates have targeted Asian ships...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 12 | SOMALIAINDIA Permission to come on board? 28th October 2008 The deployment against the pirates will entail an upgrade of India's fleet and the overcoming of legal obstacles India’s navy hosted its first Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS) in Delhi in February to promote cooperation amongst 26 states in the region. Its aim was to foster...
Vol 48 No 24 | SOMALIA A new man in Mogadishu 30th November 2007 If new Prime Minister Nur Adde can talk to the opposition and clan leaders, he might just help to stop the slaughter Much depends on the new Prime Minister. Nur Hassan Hussein 'Adde' was sworn in on 24 November, after Parliament had endorsed him with only one abstention. With good...
Vol 48 No 21 | SOMALIA Bad history 19th October 2007 Those planning a UN peacekeeping mission to Somalia are haunted by the disasters of 15 years ago Ethiopian and Ugandan troops in Somalia are due to welcome a new contingent of peacekeepers this month. Two battalions of soldiers from Burundi, with 1,750 men, should arrive...
Vol 48 No 21 | SOMALIA Fall out at the top 19th October 2007 The rift between President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi is in full swing. The latest twist came when Attorney General Abdullahi Dahir ordered the...
Vol 48 No 21 | SOMALIASOMALILANDPUNTLAND How many states for the north? 19th October 2007 Tension between Somaliland (created in 1991) and the much less firmly established Puntland (created 1998) has been running high. On 1 July, yet another state, Maakhir, was inaugurated...