Somalia is Not a State
The TFG is not actually a government, and the state it purports to govern does not exist. Both are fictions perpetuated by the United Nations and its member states...
Contact Group on Piracy Meets in New York
The United States will join partners from nearly 70 countries, international organizations, and the private sector at the United Nations in New York July 14, for a plenary meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia...
Italy Plans To Reopen Embassy in Somalia
Mantica said: “We have agreed on the reopening of the Italian Embassy in Mogadishu. We expect to open it before the end of the year...
Ailing President Salih To Step Down on 17 July
Several political sources in Sanaa yesterday expected a major political surprise will be announced that may include President`s announcement that he will step down from power on Sunday...
CIA secret prison
The US Central Intelligence Agency is using a secret facility in Somalia for counterterrorism...
Large Scale Starvation in Somalia
10 million people in northern Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and South Sudan are at immediate risk of starvation because of the worst regional drought in 60 years...
First Anniversary of Kampala Bombings
Museveni: “Somalia is the exporter of terrorism in the whole area... Somalia is now a threat to the economies of Eastern Africa” ...
Pakistan Article: Dismembering the Muslim World
As oil rich South Sudan becomes independent, there are increasing signs that the West, especially America is spearheading efforts to either dismember some Muslim countries or subtly instigate regime change in others...
Somcable
Somcable has won the contract from government of Somaliland to connect it to the undersea optical fibre cable that runs along the coast of East Africa. The cable would land in Berbera and service Somalia through this landing station...
Beyond the Euphoria of Southern Independence
South Sudan becomes the world`s newest nation on 9 July, the final step in the six-year Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), a deal that ended the 1983-2005 North-South war...
Testimony by D. Yamamoto
"We trust Prime Minister Abdiweli and his yet-unnamed cabinet will focus on the essential tasks at hand and bring into the process Puntland, Galmuduug, Ahlu Sunna wal Jama`a and other Somali stakeholders.” ...
Testimony by David Shinn
“I have argued for the past decade that the United States should devote more development resources to Somaliland and Puntland”. ...
Testimony by Peter Pham
“While Puntland is still formally committed to being a part of a future federal Somalia, its people have continued to edge closer to abandoning altogether the shipwreck that is the Somali ship of state.” ...
Testimony by B. Bruton
“The failings of the Somali “government” under the leadership of Sharif Sheikh Sharif Ahmed are so marked and egregious that continued U.S. support of the TFG seems virtually impossible to justify” ...
Testimony by M. Murphy
“Piracy`s epicenter is Puntland including for the gangs that operate outside its borders in Mudug and Galguduud. Pirate activity is now a major part of the Puntland economy; probably second only to expatriate remittances in terms of national income.” ...
Interview with former member of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya
“I consider that a woman is qualified to be a president, the Egyptian Copt is qualified, and any one that the people choose will be qualified to undertake this role.”...
Saudi Arabia bans maids from Indonesia, Philippines
Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday that it would soon stop issuing visas to Indonesian maids, mooting continued discussions to protect Indonesian migrant workers...
Southern Sudan Prepares for Independence
A new country will come into existence this weekend in Africa. Southern Sudan, rich in oil reserves, is declaring its independence...
Silanyo does Meles and Rayale a favour
Silanyo, acting at the behest of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, has just sacked his country`s commander of police, General Elmi Robleh Furreh...
United States of East Africa
In 1967, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya founded the East African Community (EAC) with a view to federation....
Somali pirates use Socotra as fuel base
Pirates have been using Yemen`s remote Horn of Africa island of Socotra as a refueling hub enabling their attack craft to stay restocked for longer periods at sea...
Interview with Sharif
President Sharif: “I would also like to thank Uganda, Burundi and other countries for the support they have given us. We think the Somali problem should be solved by Africans.” ...
With or Without NATO
Interview with Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi by Jean-Philippe Remy in Tripoli; date not given: “`With or Without NATO, Rebels Will Lose` in Libya” ...
Part V: After the Election
1969: In all, 64 political parties contested the elections. Final results gave the ruling Somali Youth League (SYL) 73 out of the total 124 seats...
“We Must Fight Piracy”
Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen says: We must build up coastguards in the Horn of Africa as well as police forces and prisons in Somalia ...
NATO Interest in Libya
Interview with Ali Akbar Farazi, Iran`s former ambassador to Romania and senior NATO expert says: NATO Is After Libya`s Oil, not Qadhafi`s Surrender ...
Kenya-Somalia Dispute
1967: Mr. Egal then declared: “. . . we in the Somali Republic make no claims on the territory of any of our neighbours ...
Part III: Dilemma on the Horn of Africa
1966: Somali ambitions are well known, On the country`s flag there is a five-point star—two points for the united British and Italian Somalilands, one for the Somali in Kenya, one for those in Ethiopia & one for French Somaliland...
Shaykh Salah `Terrorist`?!
The arrest of Shaykh Raed Salah by the British security forces after he had entered the country legally in response to an invitation by British parliamentarians to take part in a political forum is the ugliest form of McCarthyism ...