Strategic Thinking on East Africa

Addis Ababa, 25 September, 2015(WIC) - At least 20 al Shabaab militias have been killed by Amisom and Somalia National Army troops in Hiraan, central Somalia. Amisom said this happened after al Shabaab fighters launched a guerilla assault on Amisom and SNA bases in two villages a few kilometres from Baladweyne. Several other fighters were injured.“Despite […]

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  From Foreign Policy African Union troops are having their “worst year” in Somalia since 2011. Can they still mount a final offensive against the al Qaeda-linked group? BY TY MCCORMICK TOROTOROW, Somalia — African Union troops, draped in shimmering belts of ammunition and sweating under the weight of their body armor, kept an uneasy watch […]

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AFP | Somali government soldiers. File photo Image by: REUTERS/Feisal Omar / REUTERS Somali government troops backed by African Union forces on Friday captured the Shebab stronghold of Dinsor, the second town seized from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists this week, the defence minister said. While Dinsor fell without a major fight, with Shebab gunmen fleeing ahead of […]

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From The BBC Al-Shabab has stepped up attacks during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan Al-Shabab militants have killed at least five soldiers in an overnight attack on an army base in the southern Somali port of Kismayo. Islamist fighters beheaded some of the captured Somali soldiers after briefly taking over the camp, witnesses told […]

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From allAfrica.com An African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) military base has been attacked in a dawn raid that has been claimed by armed group al-Shabab. A tweet from AMISOM confirmed the raid started on Friday at its outpost in Lego, about 100km northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu. The mission is manned by Burundian […]

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From the Brookings Institution Article | June 23, 2015 By: Vanda Felbab-Brown In early May 2015, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a historic but little noticed visit to Somalia, a country no other U.S. secretary of state had ever visited. His trip symbolized both how far Somalia has come—from the blackest days of civil war, clan […]

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From The Brookings Institution Bradley S. Porter and Vanda Felbab-Brown | May 27, 2015 11:45am In May 2015, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry became the first person of his office ever to visit Somalia. Although it was an unannounced and very brief stop—he spent just over three hours in the country—the trip indicated that there have […]

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By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned in a new report that the crisis in Yemen could open a corridor for jihadist movements through Somalia, which is located just across the Gulf of Aden. Ban said in a report to the U.N. Security Council circulated Monday that security in Somalia and […]

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Addis Ababa, 12 March 2015 (WIC) - The Special Representative of the African Union Commission Chairperson (SRCC) for Somalia, Amb. Maman S. Sidikou has learnt with sadness news of the heinous attack targeting innocent civilians, members of the Somali Police Force and the AMISOM peacekeepers in Baidoa town, in the Bay region. According to a […]

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