Somalia

  • Jan 25, 2017
  • 2 min read

More high-profile attacks in Somalia are likely

Al-Shabaab launches an assault against a Mogadishu hotel in its latest strike against the capital

Somalia
  • Jan 20, 2017
  • 2 min read

EU may balk at a new Burundian payment plan

Burundi's government has tentatively reversed a decision to withdraw from the AU Mission in Somalia

Burundi
  • Jan 17, 2017
  • 7 min read

Commercial drilling for Somali oil is years away

Geological evidence and regional discoveries have raised the prospects of oil deposits for Somalia

Somalia
  • Jan 17, 2017
  • 2 min read

Burundi’s withdrawal may weaken AMISOM

A pay dispute with the EU prompts Burundi to withdraw from a peacekeeping operation in Somalia

Somalia
  • Jan 10, 2017
  • 1 min read

Middle East politics will shape humanitarian funding

Iraq, Syria and Yemen, the UN's three top emergencies, are all in the Middle East -- but donor responses vary

Middle East
  • Dec 28, 2016
  • 2 min read

Money may prove pivotal in Somalia's presidential vote

A new parliament is sworn in but the presidential vote is delayed for the fourth time

Somalia
  • Dec 12, 2016
  • 2 min read

Security will define the new government in Somalia

This weekend’s bombing in Mogadishu illustrates the perilous security environment the new government will inherit

Somalia
  • Dec 8, 2016
  • 2 min read

IS poses limited threat in Somalia

Puntland forces wrest back control of a port town that fell to IS sympathisers several weeks ago

Somalia