Somalia

China’s Growing Role in Africa – Implications for U.S. Policy: Amb. Shinn

Remarks made by Amb. David Shinn, in a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African…

Puntland and Somalia: The Year Ahead: President Abdirahman Mohamud Farole

Highlights: * It is [Puntland’s] consistent position that the remaining federal states in south-central Somalia are formed, in accordance with…

Somaliland’s President visits Addis Ababa

[From: A Week in the Horn of Africa, Nov. 4, 2011 issue.] Somaliland’s President Ahmed Mohamed ‘Silanyo’ was in Addis…

General Abizaid: don’t rush into conflict | Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention 2006

A Leaked US Embassy Cable reveals that Pres. George Bush’s favorite General cautioned PM Meles Zenawi against ‘a rush into…

Senator inquires Ethiopian motive, military capacity | Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention 2006

Leaked Cables of US Embassy Addis Ababa refutes the recurrent claim regarding the December 24, 2006 Ethiopian military intervention in…

Meles Zenawi asked US for Intel | Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention 2006

Despite the repeated media claims that Ethiopia went to Somalia ‘to do America's dirty job’, four leaked Cables of Nov.…

PM wary of US condemnation; UK stopped Uganda? |Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention 2006

The Ethiopian Prime Minister was wary of a possible US condemnation about two month before launching a military offensive in…

US – Ethiopia meetings on the eve of Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention 2006

It is fashionable for detractors of Ethiopia to claim that ‘Zenawi invaded Somalia at the behest of George Bush’, as…

USAID: Horn of Africa drought fact sheet – Fiscal Year 2012

HORN OF AFRICA – DROUGHT FACT SHEET #4, FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2012 Oct. 27, 2011 KEY DEVELOPMENTS During the week…

Al-Shabaab ambushed Kenyans | Army perp for an assault on Burgabo

An estimated 45 Al-Shabaab fighters ambushed Kenyan troops who were travelling from the Somali town of Tabda to Beles Qooqani,…

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