Somalia

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Zambia’s debt, Kenya’s parliament and trade, and politics in the Horn of Africa

Payce Madden

Saturday, September 26, 2020

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Political, security, and public health dimensions in the Horn of Africa

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FILE PHOTO: Somalia's Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire addresses the Parliament seating where he was confirmed in Somalia's capital Mogadishu March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: New funding to fight COVID-19 in Africa, Somalia’s prime minister voted out, and political updates in Mali and Côte d’Ivoire

Christina Golubski and Chris Heitzig

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Somalia

The long war in Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Adam Day

Hybrid Wars with Adam Day

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Reports

Jubbaland forces carry their ammunitions during a security patrol against Islamist al Shabaab militants in Bulagaduud town, north of Kismayu, Somalia, August 17, 2015. Ahmed Madobe, a former Islamist warlord won re-election on Saturday as president of Somalia's southern region of Jubbaland, a territory partly controlled by al Shabaab militants and at odds with the central government of the Horn of Africa country. The fate of Kismayu and Jubbaland is seen as a test of the central government's skill in building a federal system and pacifying a nation fought over for more than two decades by warlords and Islamist rebels. REUTERS/Abdiqani Hassan

Somalia

The problem with militias in Somalia: Almost everyone wants them despite their dangers

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Somalia

The hard, hot, dusty road to accountability, reconciliation, and peace in Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown

May 2018

Picture of African Union Mission in Somalia peacekeepers and a refugee camp.

Report

Expert opinion on AMISOM contributing countries continued provision of troops

David Mastro

October 2016

Report

DDR in the Context of Offensive Military Operations, Counterterrorism, CVE and Non-Permissive Environments: Key Questions, Challenges, and Considerations

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Report

DDR – A Bridge Not Too Far: A Field Report from Somalia

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Blog Posts

A chain is used to secure the gate of the Abuja National Mosque, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Abuja, Nigeria March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Debt relief in Somalia, government efforts to combat COVID-19, and new Boko Haram attacks

Christina Golubski

Saturday, March 28, 2020

A desert locust is seen on the farmer's hand in a grazing land on the outskirt of Dusamareb in Galmudug region, Somalia December 22, 2019. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Nagy visits Africa, locust outbreak threatens East Africa, and Burundi update

Payce Madden and Anna Schaeffer

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Africa in Focus

A conversation with Somali Finance Minister Abdirahman Duale Beileh on economic adjustment in fragile African states

Payce Madden

Monday, November 4, 2019

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Multimedia

Somali government soldiers secure the scene of an attack on a restaurant by the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia, October 1, 2016. REUTERS/Feisal Omar - S1BEUEMCYWAA

Order from Chaos

Somalia, facing severe challenges, also shows signs of hope

Ian Livingston

Thursday, May 3, 2018

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CANCELED — Webinar: Jihadism at a crossroads

The limits of punishment: Transitional justice and violent extremism

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