Somali President, Sheikh Sharif returns home
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid)-Somali president, Sheikh Sharif Sh. Ahmed and his delegates have arrived in the capital Mogadishu after they had paid visits of Djibouti and Egyptian countries, officials said. T.F.G cabinet ministers welcomed president Sharif and his delegation at Adam Adde international airport at noon on Friday. The President who left Mogadishu early this week [...]
Somalia’s alshabab leader traveled to UAE twice through Kenya
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid) – Somalia’s al-Qaeda sponsored alshabab’s spiritual leader, Sheikh Mukhtar Abdurahman Abu Zubeyr (AKA Ahmed Abdi Aw Mohamed Godane) has traveled twice, via Kenya to the UAE to visit his wife and family in Sharjah, Sunatimes reported. The reclusive leader made unreported trips to United Arab Emirate to visit his wife and children [...]
Pirates’ Catch Exposed Kenya Route of Arms to volatile Sudan
Listen Khartoum (Alshahid) — It was September 2008 and a band of Somali pirates made a startling discovery. The Ukrainian freighter they had just commandeered in the Gulf of Aden was packed with weapons, including 32 Soviet-era battle tanks, and the entire arsenal was headed for the regional government in southern Sudan. The Ukrainian and [...]
America looks to Puntland and Somaliland
Listen By Hussein Yusuf: The United States has been involved in Somalia since the early 1980s, first during the Cold War and then in 1992 during the country’s massive famine by launching the humanitarian mission Operation Restore Hope. In the last decade, however, the United States has become even more involved, actively supporting the Transitional [...]
How Did al-Shabab Emerge from Somalia’s Chaos?
Listen By NIR ROSEN: The concerns and agenda of Somalia’s al-Shabab militia are very much rooted in local politics. However, its rise to prominence is tied to decisions taken by the U.S. and its regional allies in pursuit of the Bush Administration’s “Global War on Terror.” Following the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. deemed the 10-year [...]
America’s Problem in Somalia
Listen In a recent radio interview in South Africa, US President Barrack Hussein Obama, deflecting direct US responsibility for almost 20 years of non-stop proxy war on Somalia , stated that the “ militants” so called “Al-Shabaab-Al-Qaeda terrorist network” were not only responsible for the twin bombings of Kampala, Uganda, but were also “racist”. The [...]
Plight of Somali Refugees in the Arabian Peninsula
Listen By Mohamed O. Eyow Unfortunate Somalis destined from bad to worse, it’s over two decades now when an armed violence erupted in the home country. The world gets bewildered to mend the unabated political morass. Entire multiple bids by regional and international actors to defuse the prevalent hybrid quandary are yet to deliver. The [...]
The Relationship between Aid and Security in Eastern Africa
Listen In Africa, the United States (US) military since 9/11 has been involved in the provision of humanitarian and development assistance. This trend is being consolidated in the new US Command for Africa – AFRICOM – that advances a role for the US military in Africa’s development. One of the models for the new command [...]
Somalia: Ripe moment for aggressive intervention and progressive mediation
Listen In the next few months Somalia will be sadly entering a world record of twenty years of civil war that is not showing any signs of ending. However, scholars who have spent time studying how conflicts begin and end will agree that warring groups in Somalia have reached a hurting stalemate and are now [...]
The Relationship between Aid and Security in Eastern Africa
Listen In Africa, the United States (US) military since 9/11 has been involved in the provision of humanitarian and development assistance. This trend is being consolidated in the new US Command for Africa – AFRICOM – that advances a role for the US military in Africa’s development. One of the models for the new command [...]