There is a brewing subterranean cold war between China and Obama’s US.
The latest activities of the US in Asia, especially Obama’s invitation and subsequent meeting of the Dalai Lama, believed to be the spiritual leader, if not political leader of separatist Tibet.
Tibet is seeking US support to get greater autonomy from Beijing. China is hard [...]
Focus should be on good governance.
The latest headache for the African Union (AU) is no longer inter-state wars nor civil uprisings, but an upsurge in unconstitutional changes of government.
During the recently concluded AU Summit in Addis Ababa, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon decried the resurgence of unconstitutional changes of government in Africa.
“We must also [...]
Washington Post’s Editorial
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By Ahmed Dahir
AS a member of the Somali community in Seattle, I was shocked and terrified when I heard that the suicide attack against the peacekeeper’s compound in Mogadishu was carried out by a Somali American with ties to Seattle. The suspect’s father was quoted saying “He’s very sorry about the tragedy” and “ashamed of [...]
If you followed the news at all this summer, you would have heard about Somalia. It seemed as though Somali pirates were suddenly hijacking ships every week. The biggest news story of the summer may have been that of Captain Richard Phillips, whose ship was commandeered by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean.
Captain Phillips traded [...]
Mogadishu — Chaos and death on the streets of Mogadishu: unfortunately, it’s nothing new in the Somali capital.
1 of 3 Government forces are fighting against insurgents on this day in September in a bloody battle that leaves 30 dead. Dozens of wounded Somalis are taken out of the danger zone, some of them in the [...]
The recent killing in Somalia of a top US target shows that the Obama administration is fully committed to taking military action in support of the shaky Transitional Federal Government.
The September 14 helicopter attack that killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who had long been hunted by the US for his alleged role in terror attacks [...]
Few nations in the world are as strategically important but as little known as Djibouti, a small desert nation of half a million people in the heart of the Horn of Africa. A lingering insurgency by the ethnic-Afar Front pour la Restauration de l’Unité et de la Démocratie (Front for the Restoration of Unity and [...]
Dismantling a new cell in Morocco to attract potential volunteers to Iraq is not surprising. The shortest way to join the opponents of the US presence there is through the Al-Qaeda organization in Iraq.
The most hostile organization to the US presence in the region is represented by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
In addition, the penetration [...]
Mogadishu – We duck through a hole in a wall along this city’s blasted-out waterfront, following teenage gunmen with skinny shoulders and enormous guns.
We creep over old fishing nets that haven’t touched salt water for years. All around us are ruins – ruined buildings, ruined boats, streets pulverized to a fine, bluish-gray rubble. This part [...]
