MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Al-Shabaab has spent nearly two decades learning one lesson about its enemies: they leave. Governments turn over, coalitions tire, and the foreign
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The letter that may end Somalia’s foreign-backed war came on July 1. It read less like a funding notice than a verdict.
KISMAYO, SOMALIA – A Lower Juba raid killed sixteen al-Shabaab fighters this week, and two of them were senior commanders. It was one of the
BOSASO, SOMALIA – The Bosaso port has sat idle for nine straight days. There is still no end in sight. Traders in Puntland’s largest city
GAROWE, SOMALIA – General Takar is stuck in Lasanod, and with him the most ambitious federal attempt yet to plant an army inside Puntland. Regional
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The latest American airstrike in Somalia landed at Farsooley, a village roughly 90 kilometres west of Mogadishu. The distance is the story.
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The most honest map of Somalia’s war is four years old. A new International Crisis Group briefing concludes that the front lines
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Turkiye’s land forces commander, Gen. Metin Tokel, pinned a presidential medal on a Somali officer in Mogadishu this week. The gesture revealed
BAIDOA, SOMALIA – One month ago, Mogadishu staged an inauguration in Baidoa under circling jets from Turkiye. Today the city is slipping from its grip.
A Crisis Engineered from Villa Somalia Somalia’s electoral crisis was manufactured in Villa Somalia. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has spent the better part of his
