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• Toward an Economic Recovery in Somalia

  By Somalia Newsroom on May 4, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Below is an excerpt of a report published by a Somalia Newsroom blogger on Sabahi Online. You can read the full analysis here. Somalia’s first permanent government in 22 years faces significant obstacles in getting the nation’s economy back on… Read More ›

• Al-Shabaab Attacks Bring New Forces, Laws to Mogadishu

  By Somalia Newsroom on April 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Since al-Shabaab’s Supreme Court attack on 14 April 2013, the Somali government has been moving forward with efforts to improve security in the capital. Large contingents of Somali soldiers have been training in Uganda, Djibouti, and  Somalia by multiple partners—including the United States,… Read More ›

• Journalist, Lawyers Among Dead in al-Shabaab Attack in Mogadishu

  By Somalia Newsroom on April 14, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  As many as 34 people were killed and almost 60 injured in a set of coordinated attacks by al-Shabaab in Mogadishu involving suicide bombers, gunmen, and two separate car bomb attacks. A car bomb was detonated at the entrance of the Supreme… Read More ›

• Explaining Ethiopia’s Curious Strategy in Somalia

  By Somalia Newsroom on April 1, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  In mid-March 2013, Ethiopian troops deployed in the strategic town of Xudur in Bakool region withdrew its forces with little warning to residents or allied forces. Somali National Army (SNA) troops, who left alongside the Ethiopians, could not hold the… Read More ›

• Amid Government Militia Infighting, Somalia Awaits Arms Imports

  By Somalia Newsroom on March 29, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A delegation has been sent by the Somali Ministry of Interior to address the continued infighting between government-allied militias in the port town of Marka—located 110 km south of the capital Mogadishu. Since 22 March 2013, shootouts have occurred several… Read More ›

• War Igniting between al-Shabaab and al-I’tisam

  By Somalia Newsroom on March 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Tension appears to be growing between al-Shabaab and rival Salafi group al-I’tisam–both offshoots of Somalia’s defunct Salafi-Jihadi group al-Itihad al-Islami (AIAI). On 7 March 3013, a grenade was thrown at the al-Rawda mosque in Bosaso during an al-I’tisam lecture ironically entitled “Infringements on Islam… Read More ›

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