MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The commander of United States Africa Command has put a condition on American engagement in Somalia, and he said it on Somali
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The head of AFRICOM flew into Halane on Thursday to talk about al-Shabaab. He left having talked about Villa Somalia instead. General
GALKAYO, SOMALIA – Puntland troops have surrounded a camp in Galkayo held by Puntland Security Force personnel who draw their orders from Mogadishu. The encirclement
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia’s finance minister told an audience in Mogadishu on Tuesday that between 450 and 600 million dollars of income that used to
GAROWE, SOMALIA – On 21 July Puntland moved troops off the Cal Miskaad front and sent them down to the Bosaso highway to intercept a
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The lights went out at Somalia’s foreign ministry this week, and the reason was almost too plain to believe. The power utility
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Four years of Somali policy on foreign troops can be read off a single file, and the ATMIS file is unusually candid
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The draft penal code sitting in Somalia’s parliament does something no Somali law has attempted since 1962. Article 454 repeals Law No.
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Puntland and Jubaland walked out of Mogadishu’s election talks this week, and no committee has stepped in since to paper over the
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – A short video has put Somalia’s most vital partnership under strain. The clip spread across social media late last week. It shows
