Category: Somalia
Somalia has been in a state of civil war and anarchy since 1991, when the central government of Mohammed Siad Barre was overthrown. Various clan-based armed groups took control of parts of Somalia, while its northern part, Somaliland, declared independence.
In second half of the 2000s, the international recognized Transitional Federal Government managed to control most of the territory, with the help of Ethiopia. In 2012, a federal Constitution was adopted followed by the formation of the Federal Government of Somalia. The government’s mandate is slated to end in 2015 with the adoption of a new constitution and elections.
President Hassan Sheik Mohamud is the incumbent.
Read the posts related to Somalia below
The Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa
Highlights: * This was the first of what is intended to be an annual meeting.
Analysis: Aid Policy: Does private money buy independence?
Private donors are growing steadily more important to global aid, contributing one-quarter of the estimated.
Ethiopian, Somalian troops captured two districts in Bay region
Transitional Federal Government forces, with support from Ethiopian troops, captured two districts and several villages.
Somalia: Mogadishu bombings, Al-Shabaab’s internal disputes
Somalia: Bombings continue but real progress towards normality in Mogadishu…… Despite this week’s suicide bomber.
Eritrea: President Isaias’ Conspiracy Theories
President Isaias of Eritrea wrote a letter to the Security Council on March 27, 2012.
Somalia: Food Security Outlook, Jan – June 2012 [FEWS Net]
SOMALIA Food Security Outlook January to June 2012 Key Messages * Famine has ended in.
Ethiopian PM visit to Kenya and the launching of Lamu Port project
The weekly press release of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published the following summary.
Somalia: Benefits – and risks – of Puntland oil
The recent discovery of oil deposits in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia,.
Uganda: Questions over progress against the Lord’s Resistance Army
The US believes its military intervention in central Africa in pursuit of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s.
A discussion on the possibility of a third consecutive year of drought in the Horn.