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Satellite images reveal Somalian piracy boom

. The British think tank Chatham House published a report [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

Djibouti President wants to secure his troops in Somalia

. President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) of Djibouti took all [...]

Subscribers only 13.01.2012

How PetroTrans will export gas

PetroTrans, a Hong Kong-based company which bought Petronas’ concessions in Ethiopia last July, is expected by the end of January [...]

Subscribers only Energy 03.01.2012

Hargeisa's gold prospector

Gregory Bowes, the CEO of Mindesta Inc and principal shareholder in Nubian Gold Corp, is a pioneer in gold exploration in Somaliland.

Subscribers only Business 23.12.2011

Mohamed Hassan Jidhif

Reluctant to recognise the authority of Colonel Mohamed Kahin Ahmed, newly appointed National Security Chief, the head of the Somaliland [...]

Subscribers only 23.12.2011

Hargeisa

President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud known as Silanyo has appointed a [...]

Subscribers only Politics 23.12.2011

Kenyan army does not want to be accountable to Amisom

Although Kenya has decided to join the African Union Mission [...]

Subscribers only 23.12.2011

Nairobi goes to the Amisom

The Kenyan army cannot afford to carry through the war that it has undertaken against al Shabaab. It now intends to do so through the African Union Mission on Somalia.

Subscribers only Politics 09.12.2011

No red carpet for Silanyo

At least two sensitive subjects were discussed during the meeting on November 27, between Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh and his counterpart from Somaliland.

Subscribers only Politics 09.12.2011

Hargeisa

The new Somaliland Minister for Security, Mohamed Nour Arrale known [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.12.2011

Somaliland lobbyists in the United Kingdom

A group of British supporters of the Hargeisa government has [...]

Subscribers only 09.12.2011

EU appoints a Greek special envoy

Alexander Rondos, a Greek diplomat born in Tanzania in 1954, has just been appointed European Union (EU) Special Envoy to [...]

Subscribers only 09.12.2011

Offshore blocks awarded at last

A unknown Canadian company has been awarded three blocks in Puntland. For the first time, two are offshore concessions.

Subscribers only Energy 29.11.2011

Discord with Ethiopian Consul

Last week a Somaliland minister passed on his remonstrations to General Berhe Tesfaye, the Ethiopian Consul in Hargeisa. Tesfaye did not like what he heard!

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2011

Hargeisa

The former Somaliland representative in France, Ali Ismael Hassan, who [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.11.2011

Which ally to help take Kismayo

The Kenyan army is unlikely to alone launch an assault on the Somalian port of Kismayo, an al-Shabaab stronghold. It will have to choose its ally between Gandhi and Madobe.

Subscribers only Politics 11.11.2011

Galkayo

President Mohamed Ahmed Alin of the autonomous administration of Galmudug [...]

Subscribers only Politics 11.11.2011

Somalian pirates at the threshold of the Seychelles

The Seychelles government is looking for a way of protecting [...]

Subscribers only 11.11.2011

Gandhi’s plan to take Kismayo

The plan to oust the al-Shabaab Islamist militia from the port of Kismayo and turn it into the capital of [...]

Subscribers only 07.11.2011

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The risk of bogging down already looming

The Kenyan military incursion into Somalia launched on 16 October against the Al-Shabaab Islamists has not to date resulted in any veritable terrestrial fighting. And yet it is already beginning to show signs of getting bogged down.

Subscribers only Politics 28.10.2011

DGSE enters dialogue with Silanyo

The Ambassador of France to Djibouti, René Forceville, headed a French delegation to Somaliland last week to discuss bilateral cooperation [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.10.2011

Mohamed Kahin Ahmed

The creation at the beginning of October by President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud known as Silanyo, of the function of National [...]

Subscribers only 28.10.2011

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The difficult search for hostage takers

Active agents of the French Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure (DGSE) and servicemen in the Commandement des opérations spéciales (COS) have made many moves these last few days to try to locate the French hostage Marie Dedieu who was [.

Subscribers only Politics 14.10.2011

IOG’s ears to the ground in Hargeisa

A discreet team based in Hargeisa is keeping the Djibouti President posted on security matters.

Subscribers only Politics 14.10.2011

ACP money to help Horn of Africa

At the request of Ambassadors to Brussels of Ethiopa, Kassu [...]

Subscribers only 14.10.2011

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Somalia

Satellite images reveal Somalian piracy boom

Djibouti President wants to secure his troops in Somalia

How PetroTrans will export gas

Hargeisa's gold prospector

Mohamed Hassan Jidhif

Hargeisa

Kenyan army does not want to be accountable to Amisom

Nairobi goes to the Amisom

No red carpet for Silanyo

Hargeisa

Somaliland lobbyists in the United Kingdom

EU appoints a Greek special envoy

Offshore blocks awarded at last

Discord with Ethiopian Consul

Hargeisa

Which ally to help take Kismayo

Galkayo

Somalian pirates at the threshold of the Seychelles

Gandhi’s plan to take Kismayo

Spotlight
The risk of bogging down already looming

DGSE enters dialogue with Silanyo

Mohamed Kahin Ahmed

Spotlight
The difficult search for hostage takers

IOG’s ears to the ground in Hargeisa

ACP money to help Horn of Africa

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Somalia

Satellite images reveal Somalian piracy boom

Djibouti President wants to secure his troops in Somalia

How PetroTrans will export gas

Hargeisa's gold prospector

Mohamed Hassan Jidhif

Hargeisa

Kenyan army does not want to be accountable to Amisom

Nairobi goes to the Amisom

No red carpet for Silanyo

Hargeisa

Somaliland lobbyists in the United Kingdom

EU appoints a Greek special envoy

Offshore blocks awarded at last

Discord with Ethiopian Consul

Hargeisa

Which ally to help take Kismayo

Galkayo

Somalian pirates at the threshold of the Seychelles

Gandhi’s plan to take Kismayo

Spotlight The risk of bogging down already looming

DGSE enters dialogue with Silanyo

Mohamed Kahin Ahmed

Spotlight The difficult search for hostage takers

IOG’s ears to the ground in Hargeisa

ACP money to help Horn of Africa

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