Somalia

The most heartwarming initiative that happened in Mogadishu in 2013 was the start of an inspirational reconstruction momentum thanks to the city’s energetic and ambitious mayor Mohamud Ahmed Nur Tarsan.

‘Does al Shabab Pose a Threat on American Soil?’ So read a headline in the New York Times’ blog, Room for Debate. Despite its name, Room for Debate rarely shows any true differences of opinion on whatever issue of the day is considered significant to the Times’ editors.

Anyone who follows the plight of Somalia should be elated by the news of Somali groups reaching an agreement on their differences.

Billows of smoke emanated from the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on the third day of a standoff between Kenyan, Israeli and United States forces (FBI) against the seizure of the facility by members of the Al-Shabaab Islamic resistance movement based in Somalia.

Kenya’s intervention in Somalia October 2011, the first since the country’s independence, came as a surprise to many observers in the Horn of Africa.

The United States of America, the United Nations and the UN Security Council spearheaded, supported, mediated and finally validated the legitimacy and integrity of the constitutional process which marked the end of the transition period and the election of an internationally recognized inclusi

It is hard to mull over the history of Somali Youth and not first feel pride and then despair and sadness because of the bright past and tragic present.

A few days ago, IHS Jane, a well-established company for global security analysis, released an analysis under the title

After years of overlooking the real needs of the Somali people, it was significant, longed-for change that Somalia’s statebuilding featured in the strategic agenda of the key actors of the International Community (IC), namely the G8 powers [1] in their ministerial meeting held in London on April