Somalia

The Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa

Highlights: * This was the first of what is intended to be an annual meeting “aimed at promoting dialogue as…

Analysis: Aid Policy: Does private money buy independence?

Private donors are growing steadily more important to global aid, contributing one-quarter of the estimated US$73.9 billion spent on emergency…

Ethiopian, Somalian troops captured two districts in Bay region

Transitional Federal Government forces, with support from Ethiopian troops, captured two districts and several villages from Al-Shabaab in the Bay…

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…

Eritrea: President Isaias’ Conspiracy Theories

President Isaias of Eritrea wrote a letter to the Security Council on March 27, 2012 as a follow up to…

Somalia: Food Security Outlook, Jan – June 2012 [FEWS Net]

SOMALIA Food Security Outlook January to June 2012 Key Messages * Famine has ended in southern Somalia. However, nearly a…

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 regarding Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s…

Somalia: Benefits – and risks – of Puntland oil

The recent discovery of oil deposits in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia, could improve its population's livelihoods…

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 Resistance Army (LRA) is having…

Time to take early action before another Horn of Africa drought

A discussion on the possibility of a third consecutive year of drought in the Horn of Africa was held this…

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