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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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 ...
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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Al-Shabaab Waits Out a Retreat Somalia Cannot Afford
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Al-Shabaab has spent nearly two decades learning one lesson about its enemies: they leave. Governments turn over, ...
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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 ...
Read moreDetailsA 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 moreDetailsForeign Firepower Is All That Keeps the War From Mogadishu’s Gates
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The latest American airstrike in Somalia landed at Farsooley, a village roughly 90 kilometres west of Mogadishu. ...
Read moreDetailsSomalia’s Foreign Ministry Goes Dark as Mogadishu Runs Short of Cash
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The lights went out at Somalia's foreign ministry this week, and the reason was almost too plain ...
Read moreDetailsHassan Sheikh Launches Mogadishu Crackdown While Al-Shabaab Advances
Mogadishu, SOMALIA – The Mogadishu crackdown that erupted in early June has laid bare a devastating truth about President Hassan ...
Read moreDetailsVilla Somalia’s Troops March on Galmudug and Hirshabelle
Dhusmareb, SOMALIA – The federal government is airlifting weapons and soldiers into regional capitals to ensure that Somalia state elections ...
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Mogadishu Counts Laftagareen’s Dead as Al-Shabaab
BAIDOA, SOMALIA – The federal government has told the country that the men killed in Monday's battle for Baidoa were...
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