Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsEssay – Part 3 of 3 Kenyans can now reflect on the changing alliances of the US military inside Somalia before and after the Ethiopians were defeated by nationalist elements. Abdi Samatar has written extensively on the ebb and flow of the fabrication of terrorism. It is [...]
Remilitarisation of Africa Set to Fail
November 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Horace Campbell* IDN-InDepth NewsEssay – Part 1 of 3 Kenya’s foray into Somalia, led from behind by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), represents a heightened threat to peace and reconstruction in Africa, especially East Africa. This Western-supported incursion is more against the Kenyan people than against the forces [...]
UN: Somalia Is ‘Worst Humanitarian Disaster’
July 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, Jul 11, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with those affected at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. The camp, located [...]
Balkanization and Subjugation of Somalia
July 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Abukar Arman Let me begin by saying that had it not been for Somalis transgressing against other Somalis, the state would neither have been in its current pitifully fragmented state, nor would it have become the poster child for the failed states. Since its independence 51 years ago, Somalia [...]
Political Expediency May Forfeit Reform in Somalia
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Abukar Arman The worst thing that could happen to Somalia at this critical juncture—in its recovery from two decades of bloodshed and chaos— is to disrupt the momentum of security improvement and to derail the reformation process lead by Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and his cabinet. And that [...]
DEALING WITH SOMALI PIRACY: STILL GROPING IN THE DARK
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN (To be read in continuation of my article of April 19,2011, titled “Somali Pirates Say They Are At War With India” at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers45/paper4432.html ) We are still groping in the dark in matters relating to action against the Somali pirates, who are more and more active despite all the [...]
SOMALIA: Manifestation of Stealth Trusteeship
April 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Afyare Abdi Elmi * DOHA, Apr 5, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Somalia is currently under what James Fearon and David Laitin of Stanford University call "a neo-trusteeship system". Various external powers, while disagreeing among themselves, make the important decisions for the Somali people. On Jan. 30, 2011, [...]
Somalia Centre Stage Ahead of AU Summit
July 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA, Jul 18, 2010 (IPS) – The African Union summit opens in Kampala on July 19 amid heightened security following twin bomb attacks a week earlier. The official theme of child and maternal mortality will likely be overshadowed by discussion of the AU’s mission in [...]
Obama Says U.S. Will "Redouble" Efforts Against Al-Shabaab
July 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jul 14, 2010 (IPS) – U.S. President Barack Obama has said Washington will "redouble" its efforts against the Somali Islamist group al- Shabaab (The Youth), whose deadly bombings in Kampala Sunday are likely to result in stepped-up U.S. military and other assistance to the [...]
KAMPALA BLASTS: INDIAN CASUALTIES?
July 13, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 666 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Seventy-four persons, 60 of them reportedly Ugandan nationals, were killed and 70 others injured on July 11,2010, in two explosions suspected to have been carried out by Al-Shabaab, the Somali wing of Al Qaeda, at a local rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant at [...]
