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  • Defeating al-Shabab and dismembering Somalia

    news Al Jazeera, 01 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    Two years ago, the African Union Military Force (AMISOM) liberated the Somali capital, Mogadishu, from al-Shabab. More recently AMISOM and the Somali Army declared victories over al-Shabab by capturing major towns. The international community which supports AMISOM has touted these advances, yet the ...
  • EXCLUSIVE-U.S. discloses secret Somalia military

    news Reuters - Wed, 2 Jul 2014 19:40 GMT: By Phil Stewart, 02 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    WASHINGTON, July 2(Reuters) - U.S. military advisors have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist militant group al Shabaab, U.S. officials said. The comments are the first detailed publ...
  • African migrants suffocate on voyage to Italy

    news Aljazeera: AFP, 19 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    talian rescuers have found 18 bodies on a boat carrying hundreds of asylum-seekers and another died while being evacuated, the ANSA news agency reports. All were apparently killed by toxic fumes from the boat's engine. The boat, with 600 people on board, was intercepted on Saturday south of th...
  • Somalia MP killed in drive-by shooting

    news Agencies: Aljazeera, 23 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    A Somali MP renowned for her popular folk singing has been killed along with her driver in a shooting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a police official said, in a second such incident this month. Saado Ali Warsame was shot dead in the Hodan district on Wednesday by gunmen who pulled up near her...
  • Globalisation has not reached Somalia, but 'junglification' has

    news Aljazeera, 10 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    Considering the violent political unrest in various parts of the world, many accept the claim that the 21st century will go down in history as a period of global reorder, perpetual insecurity and bloodshed. If the grim headlines of the first decade could be taken as forecasts of the storms ahead, ma...
  • Opinion Al-Shabab and the party balloon effect

    news Aljazeera, 19 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    From the outset, let me make one thing clear: Al-Shabab and its extremist world view is neither constructive nor sustainable. This extremist neo-Islamist group represents one of two nihilistic worldviews that dominated the 21st century political discourse - global (dysfunctional) jihadism and global...
  • The struggle for Kenya's marginalised youth

    news Al Jazeera, 30 Jul 2014 (9 years ago )
    Nairobi, Kenya - Speaking in Swahili, with a backdrop of lush forest in south-central Somalia, a Kenyan al-Shabab commander encourages young Muslim men to fight in the conflict in Somalia. "My dear brothers, you must march forward for the sake of Allah," he said. "Some people say they want to go ...
  • SRSG Kay welcomes Himan & Heeb signing of intent to form new administration in central Somalia

    news UNSOM, 07 Aug 2014 (9 years ago )
    Mogadishu, 6 August 2014 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, welcomed the addition of Himan and Heeb as a signatory to an agreement in principle to form a regional administration in central Somalia.
  • EXCLUSIVE-U.S. to spend up to ${esc.dollar}550 mln on African rapid response forces

    news Reuters, 07 Aug 2014 (9 years ago )
    By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The United States announced on Wednesday plans to spend $110 million a year over the next three to five years to help African nations develop peacekeeping forces that can be rapidly deployed to head off militant threats and other crises. President ...
  • UN's Pillay slams Security Council 'failure'

    news AP: Aljazeera, 22 Aug 2014 (9 years ago )
    "I firmly believe that greater responsiveness by this council would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives," said Navi Pillay, whose term as high commissioner for human rights ends on August 30. Pillay said Syria's conflict "is metastasing outwards in an uncontrollable process whose eventual l...