List of Somalia articles
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TOPSHOT - Somali security forces patrol the scene of a suicide car bomb blast on August 30, 2016 in Mogadishu. At least seven people were killed on August 30 when jihadists exploded a suicide car bomb outside a popular hotel close to the presidential palace in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. The Al-Qaeda aligned Shabaab jihadists claimed responsibility for the attack on the SYL hotel which was previously attacked in both February 2016 and January 2015. / AFP / Mohamed ABDIWAHAB (Photo credit should read MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. to Send Troops to Somalia Amid Blowback
Trump declared Somalia a war zone. Al-Shabab pushed back. Now we’ve got boots on the ground.
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JEAN-MARC MOJON A Somali, part armed militia, part pirate, carries his high-caliber weapon on a beach in the central Somali town of Hobyo on August 20, 2010. Hobyo has no schools, no clinics and bad drinking water sources. Fighting a losing battle against the sand that has already completely covered the old Italian port, Hobyo's scattering of rundown houses and shacks looks anything but the nerve centre of an activity threatening global shipping. AFP PHOTO / ROBERTO SCHMIDT (Photo credit should read ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) Somalia’s Pirates Are Back in Business
Lawlessness onshore is fueling a resurgence of crime on the high seas.
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Garowe, Somalia, 2017 Habiba Azil, who is 9 month old and malnourished, is being checked by doctors inside the Garowe General Hopsital in the capital of Puntland. Puntland is a semi autonomous state in northeastern Somalia. The United Nations warns that half of the population of Somalia, about 6,2 million people, are affected by a drought in the Horn of Africa that could become a famine. During the last famine in 2011 over 250 000 people died. Starvation Stalks the Horn of Africa
Images from the drought that's pushing Somalia back to the brink of famine.
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UNSPECIFIED, PERSIAN GULF REGION - JANUARY 07: A U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), (R), returns from a mission to an air base in the Persian Gulf region on January 7, 2016. The U.S. military and coalition forces use the base, located in an undisclosed location, to launch drone airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq and Syria, as well as to transport cargo and and troops supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. The Predators at the base are operated and maintained by the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, currently attached to the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Trump Expands War Authorities to Target Militants in Somalia
Under a new authorization, U.S. forces are given more ability to launch attacks on al Shabab in the East African country
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s crop Somali Pirates Hijack Merchant Ship For First Time in Five Years
Shipping companies had dropped their guard after period of calm
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TOPSHOT - Yemeni men check the site of an air raid that hit a funeral reception in the Arhab district, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the capital Sanaa, on February 16, 2017. Eight women and a child were killed and at least 10 other women were wounded. / AFP / Mohammed HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: U.S. Strikes Pound Yemen Under New Plan; Pentagon Looking at Somalia; Mattis, White House Lock Horns
ISIS and Iraq in Drone War; McMaster to the Hill; Trump’s Budget Wishlist; And Lots More
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pres-debates Catch Up on The Presidential Debates: Somalia Edition
Not to worry: Even Trump came up, tangentially.
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Somali refugees walk at the new Ifo-extension in Dadaab on July 31, 2011. The new site opened to some 5,000 refugees among an ever swelling number of Somalia's people coming into the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya's north-easterly province. The Ifo extension, which will provide tented accommodation to 90,000 refugees by the end of November, had been prepared several weeks ago but its opening was delayed owing to opposition from Kenyan government ranks citing a threat to the nation's security. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) My Family Waited 13 Years to Resettle in the United States. Then Trump Slammed the Door in Our Faces.
Weeks before they expected their visas, my parents learned they are banned under the president’s executive order. The new law will tear our family apart.
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Soldiers of the Chadian army guard on January 21, 2015, at the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, some 40 km from Maltam, as part of a military contingent against the armed Islamist group Boko Haram. Chad, seen as having the most capable military in the region, sent on January 17-18, 2015 a convoy of troops and 400 military vehicles into neighbouring Cameroon to battle Boko Haram. AFP PHOTO / ALI KAYA (Photo credit should read ALI KAYA/AFP/Getty Images) The Islamic State Is Losing in Africa
And al Qaeda is winning.
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somalia Somalia’s Presidential Election Is Postponed Again. What Now?
This does not bode well for the safety, security, or society of Somalia.
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rsz_1cover_somalia Meet the Tank Girls Taking on al-Shabab
Somalia’s fight against jihad will be decisive for women’s rights — and may be decided by female soldiers.
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SOMALIA-UAE-UNREST-AID The U.N. Is Sending Thousands of Refugees Back Into a War Zone
Kenya’s plan to close the world’s largest refugee camp involves illegal forced repatriations of Somalis. Why is the U.N. helping to carry it out?
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Demonstrators hold placards during a protest against Al shabab insurgents outside Lido beach in the Somali capital Mogadishu, on January 28, 2016. Al Shebab killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a restaurant in the at Lido beach on January 22, 2016. / AFP / MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB (Photo credit should read MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP/Getty Images) Somalia’s Presidential Election for 14,000 People
The vote was supposed to mark the culmination of the war-wracked country’s democratic transition. Instead, it’s a backroom deal greased with Gulf petrodollars.
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A Somali trader takes khat, a mild narcotic drug meant for exports to Somalia, out of bags, 21 June 2003 at the small Wilson airport in Nairobi. Kenya has imposed a ban on all flights from the country into war-wracked neighboring Somalia, sources at Nairobi Airport's control tower said 21 June. Kenya has in the past accused Somalia, which has not had a recognised government since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in January 1991, of being responsible for the infiltration of arms into the country. AFP PHOTO/SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images) How Much Does It Cost for Somalia to Ban Khat for a Week? Millions.
During a brief ban on khat trade in Somalia, Kenyan farmers lost millions of dollars.
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DADAAB, KENYA - JULY 21: Newly arrived Somalian refugees settle on the edge of the Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee settlement on July 21, 2011 in Dadaab, Kenya. The refugee camp at Dadaab, located close to the Kenyan border with Somalia, was originally designed in the early 1990s to accommodate 90,000 people but the UN estimates over four times as many reside there. The ongoing civil war in Somalia and the worst drought to affect the Horn of Africa in six decades has resulted in an estimated 12 million people whose lives are threatened. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Is Invited to Please Shut Down
The Kenyan government says it will clear its country of Somali refugees before the end of this year. But it's not saying how.
