Category: Somalia News & Reports in English

Permanent Representative Faults Arms Embargo for Limiting Security Forces while Giving Extremist Group Comparative Advantage The tasks of restoring cooperation between Somalia’s two tiers of government and denying Al-Shabaab the space to prepare and launch its attacks are vital for the country’s progress, senior officials told the Security Council today. The Deputy Special Representative of…

Kenya’s demands also include that FGS to “reconsider its position on the listing of Al-Shabaab under Resolution 1267” CLICK HERE TO READ Kenya’s NOTE VERBALE and follow-up on the meeting between Foreign Minister Awad and Monica Juma

Despite facing long years of civil war and unrest, Puntland has made great progress in ensuring children can go to school and learn. This has resulted in the region becoming a role model for other countries emerging from conflict. Having endured long years of civil war and unrest, Somalia faces extreme poverty, high rates of displacement, and…

The Horn of Africa is one of the most geo-strategically important regions of the world, and one of the main theatres in which the Sino-African four-pronged approach – based on economic, ideological, political and security interests – unfolds. This policy brief unpacks the dynamics of Chinese engagement with the Horn of Africa, with Ethiopia as…

Independence of Somalia CLICK HERE TO READ THE CABLE: Cable dated 30 June 1960 from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy, addressed to the Secretary General

Wolfgang Achtner | January 24, 1993 ROME — The agony of Somalia has its roots in the endemic political corruption of Italy. Throughout the 1980s, Italian politicians and businessmen used the country, once a colony of Italy’s, as a playground for huge construction projects that either did little to help the local population or actually…

The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions and statements of its President on the situation in Somalia, Reaffirming its respect for the sovereignty, territorial integrity, political independence, and unity of Somalia, and underscoring the importance of working to prevent destabilizing effects of regional crises and disputes from spilling over into Somalia, 12. Welcomes the completion…

Any atrocity of the scale of the Christchurch terrorist attack is both a mirror that objectively shows us our own reflection and what needs our immediate attention, and a valuable book that teaches us how to prevent similar tragedies and the reactionary vengeance they could inspire. The horrendous news hit me like a ton of…

People standing near the wreckage of a recent Shabab-claimed suicide car bomb attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia.CreditCreditFeisal Omar/Reuters WASHINGTON — The American military has escalated a battle against the Shabab, an extremist group affiliated with Al Qaeda, in Somalia even as President Trump seeks to scale back operations against similar Islamist insurgencies elsewhere…

Click here: Somalia clarified the factual situation by sending the enclosed note verbale to Kenya on 25 February 2019 …