Somalia

  • Jul 7, 2011
  • 7 min read

Pressure on Eritrea risks igniting regional tensions

On July 4, an extraordinary summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)...

Eritrea
  • Jun 28, 2011
  • 2 min read

East African drought raises food security fears

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned today that more than 10 million...

Ethiopia
  • Jun 22, 2011
  • 6 min read

Zawahri cannot halt al-Qaida global decline

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on June 19 that al-Qaida could splinter following the...

International
  • Jun 10, 2011
  • 4 min read

Extended mandate may not save divided Somali TFIs

On June 8, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh...

Somalia
  • Jun 9, 2011
  • 2 min read

Somali leaders create chance to consolidate transition

Following a meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia in Uganda earlier...

Somalia
  • May 23, 2011
  • 2 min read

Mogadishu control would provide space for Somali talks

The African Union peace-keeping mission (AMISOM) said yesterday that it has begun an operation to...

Somalia
  • May 17, 2011
  • 2 min read

AU peacekeepers seize territory from Somalia rebels

African Union (AU) peacekeepers yesterday said that they have succeeded in taking territory from...

Somalia
  • May 5, 2011
  • 6 min read

Price pressure fuels Ethiopian regional assertiveness

Ethiopia assured an Egyptian delegation on May 3 that it would refrain from ratifying a new Nile...

Ethiopia