Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally Published on Aljazeera.net, July 8, 2010 Read the article on the original site. By Abukar Arman If I could think of any tactfully discreet and diplomatically clear way to describe the outcome of the 15th Extraordinary Session of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government on Somalia [...]
UN Food Aid Used To Nourish War In Somalia
March 23, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Babukar Kashka IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NAIROBI (IDN) – The news is scaring: part of UN food aid to war-torn Somalia ends in the hands of ‘war-lords’ and local contractors who deliver their profits – or the aid itself – to armed factions, thus fueling the armed conflict. “A handful [...]
SOMALIA: U.S. Should Accept Islamist Authority, Report Says
March 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Charles Fromm and Mohammed A. Salih WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) – The United States should accept an ”Islamist authority” in Somalia as part of a ”constructive disengagement” strategy for the war-torn country, according to a new report released here by the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday. [...]
SOMALIA: President Calls for More Aid in U.S. Visit
October 1, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Zach Rosenberg and Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (IPS) – Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the leader of Somalia’s beleaguered Transitional Federal Government (TFG), appealed here this week for increased U.S. and international security and humanitarian assistance for his efforts to defeat hard-line Islamist rebels and reconstruct his war-torn nation. [...]
SOMALIA: Sharif Returns to Power as Militants Advance
January 31, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Najum Mushtaq NAIROBI, Jan 31 (IPS) – A rare sense of optimism rose in Mogadishu in the early hours of Jan. 31 as people learnt that the leader of a moderate faction of the Union of Islamic Courts, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, had been elected as head the Transitional [...]
SOMALIA: Counting the Cost After Ethiopia Withdraws
January 31, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Abdurrahman Warsameh MOGADISHU, Jan 31 (IPS) – The suicide car bomb that struck Mogadishu Jan. 24, killing at least twenty people and injuring nearly fifty others is an explosive comment on the failure of the Ethiopian military deployment to Somalia two years ago to oust Islamist [...]
