Somalia

By Osman Abdi Mohamed In recent months Al-Shabab has been suffering successive losses at the hands of Somali government forces fighting alongside the African Union

Unlike the Lebanese crisis, or that of Kosovo, the Somali crisis is characterised by ongoing self-igniting and self-sustaining violence. The opposing forces renew, multiply, and

By Afro-Middle East Centre On the 22 July 2010, an African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda, resolved to increase the number of troops that make

By International Crisis Group Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) must engage dissidents among the country’s insurgent groups in order to strengthen its authority and combat