Browsing: Security
Few political careers illustrate Somalia’s federal contradictions more clearly than that of Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre. When he assumed…
Xamar latest confrontation with kismayo is often portrayed as a dispute over constitutional interpretation, elections, or security. In reality, it…
The execution of a man in central Somalia less than 48 hours after a police commander was killed matters because…
Pakistan’s emergence as a channel between Washington and Tehran matters because military escalation has repeatedly moved faster than formal diplomacy.…
Somalia’s political and military establishment is marking the death of Haji Ali Abdille Fiixiye, better known as Colonel Ali Shoocaac,…
Somali forces have captured a senior Al-Shabaab figure near the Kenyan border in an intelligence-led operation that also left three…
Southwest State President Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nur “Madobe” has moved quickly to consolidate his new term, appointing a large cabinet…
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud used the graduation of a new class of Somali army officers to underline the government’s central…
The United Nations has spent decades building a language for mass atrocities. Bangladesh’s 1971 war remains one of the cases…
China’s annual commemoration of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident is doing double duty: preserving the memory of war and delivering…