Somalia: Mogadishu bombings, Al-Shabaab’s internal disputes
Somalia: Bombings continue but real progress towards normality in Mogadishu...... Despite this week's suicide bomber at the recently reopened National…
Sunday, April 15, 2012 @ 12:08 pm
Al-Qaida
Al-Shabaab is now in disarray – Ethiopian official
(WIC - February 22, 2011) The coordinated military operations to wipe out al-shabaab in Somalia have left fighters of the…
Saturday, February 25, 2012 @ 3:25 am
Analysis: Behind the Merger of al-Shabab and al-Qaida – By Nelly Lahoud
Highlights: * This article reflects on what it took for this merger to occur. It discusses al-Shabab’s past unrequited courtship…
Friday, February 24, 2012 @ 7:32 pm
Ethiopian, Somalia troops capture several towns from Al-Shabaab
At the beginning of the week, Ethiopian, TFG (Transitional Federal Government) forces and Ahlu Sunna wal Jama’a militia advancing from…
Friday, February 24, 2012 @ 7:29 pm
Analysis: International Efforts to Counter Al-Shabaab – By David Shinn
(By David H. Shinn) Since the al-Shabaab (The Youth) took control of most of south and central Somalia in 2007,…
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 @ 5:21 am
Ethiopia: Police detains eight alleged al-Qaeda terrorists
(February 6, 2012) - Some eight members of the terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, were put under control while attempting to launch…
Friday, February 10, 2012 @ 6:08 am
Al-Shabaab kills, abducts gov’t officers in northeast Kenya
Al-Shabaab militants killed at least six Kenyans including four police officers in an attack in Kenya’s northeast, on Wednesday after…
Sunday, January 15, 2012 @ 12:08 am
Kenya: Britain warns of impending terror attacks
Kenya stepped up security after sending troops into neighbouring Somalia last October to pursue Islamist al Shabaab rebels, whom it…
Monday, January 9, 2012 @ 7:49 am
A US bank’s suspension of Somalian diaspora money transfer companies
Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government appealed to the US Government and the US-based Sunrise Community Banks for the resumption of the…
Sunday, January 8, 2012 @ 4:26 am
US considering the closing of Al-Shabaab’s Twitter account
The United States government has recently announced that it is becoming increasingly concerned about the Twitter account used by Al-Shabaab,…
Sunday, January 8, 2012 @ 1:00 am
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