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The Kampala Summit Meets a Somalia Mission With an Expiry Date
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Uganda's chief of defence forces opened the Kampala summit on Wednesday by telling the region something its...
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Somalia’s Federal Budget Runs on Money Mogadishu Does Not Raise
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's finance minister told an audience in Mogadishu on Tuesday that between 450 and 600 million dollars...
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The Somali Future Council Puts Legitimacy on the Kampala Agenda
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Somali Future Council has stopped arguing with Villa Somalia and begun arguing about it. In an...
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Puntland Sovereignty Does Not Distinguish Between ISIS and other Rebels
GAROWE, SOMALIA – On 21 July Puntland moved troops off the Cal Miskaad front and sent them down to the...
Read moreDetailsHassan Sheikh Reaches the Kampala Summit With Nothing to Show
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The federal government needed a signature before the Kampala summit, and it did not get one. Mediation...
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Somalia’s Federal Government Fights Its Own Regions as Foreign Backers Walk Away
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The letter that may end Somalia's foreign-backed war came on July 1. It read less like a...
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A Lower Juba Raid Cannot Mask Somalia’s Deepening Al-Shabaab Problem
KISMAYO, SOMALIA – A Lower Juba raid killed sixteen al-Shabaab fighters this week, and two of them were senior commanders....
Read moreDetailsBosaso Port’s Shutdown Tests the Limits of Puntland’s Independence
BOSASO, SOMALIA – The Bosaso port has sat idle for nine straight days. There is still no end in sight....
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Puntland Blocks General Takar as Mogadishu’s Military Play Stalls
GAROWE, SOMALIA – General Takar is stuck in Lasanod, and with him the most ambitious federal attempt yet to plant...
Read moreDetailsSomalia’s War With Al-Shabaab Settles Into a Stalemate by Design
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The most honest map of Somalia's war is four years old. A new International Crisis Group briefing...
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Somalia Joins a Red Sea Coalition It Cannot Help Defend
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia put its name to a Saudi-engineered maritime alliance in Riyadh on Thursday. It joined thirteen other...
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