ANALYSES

GALKAYO, SOMALIA – Puntland troops have surrounded a camp in Galkayo held by Puntland Security Force personnel who draw their...

KAMPALA, UGANDA – Uganda's chief of defence forces opened the Kampala summit on Wednesday by telling the region something its...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's finance minister told an audience in Mogadishu on Tuesday that between 450 and 600 million dollars...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Somali Future Council has stopped arguing with Villa Somalia and begun arguing about it. In an...

NAIROBI, KENYA – Kenya turned back a serving Somali state minister at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Sunday and put...

GAROWE, SOMALIA – On 21 July Puntland moved troops off the Cal Miskaad front and sent them down to the...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The federal government needed a signature before the Kampala summit, and it did not get one. Mediation...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Al-Shabaab has spent nearly two decades learning one lesson about its enemies: they leave. Governments turn over,...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The letter that may end Somalia's foreign-backed war came on July 1. It read less like a...

KISMAYO, SOMALIA – A Lower Juba raid killed sixteen al-Shabaab fighters this week, and two of them were senior commanders....