Somalia

PEACE COMMITTEE

Somali's former ambassador to Kenya, Hussein Ali Dualeh, who is close to Somaliland president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, announced in Nairobi [...]

DIVORCE IN THE AIR

Somali businessman Osman Hassan Ali (aka Ato) has made it official: on May 8 he announced in Mogadiscio that he [...]

BACK TO SANAA

The conference on culture and peace in Somalia, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in [...]

DOLE DUCKS THE QUESTION

Representatives of five Somali banana producers associated with exporter Somalfruit appeared in a Venice (Italy) court recently and accused Ahmed [...]

UN REOPENS THE SPLIT

The United Nations Security Council's recent proposal to set up a liaison bureau in Somalia to coordinate humanitarian aid and [...]

TIME FOR THE CRITICS

One after another, Western actors in the various ill-fated United Nations operations in Somalia have been pulling out highly critical [...]

ALI MAHDI MOHAMED

The leader of Somali Salvation Alliance, which controls the northern [...]

YEMANI ABDI

Ethiopia's deputy ambassador in Somalia, Yemani Abdi, was kidnapped in [...]

FRANCE'S UNOSOM BALANCE-SHEET

A recent report in the name of the French national assembly's foreign affairs committee ("The policy of intervention in conflicts: [...]

ANTI-GOVERNMENT ATTACK

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Garhadjis militiamen (a subclan which includes Idagale defectors fighting president Mohamed [...]

France is expected to announce (on April 4) its policy [...]

SPECIAL IGADD SUMMIT

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from diplomatic sources in Nairobi, the Kenyan government, spurred on by [...]

MALAYS IN MOGADISCIO

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, in December 1994 Malaysian army officers invited the two major factions [...]

THE PRESIDENT'S STRANGE MISSIVE

In a two-page fax message from Hargeisa on January 12 to the "Djibouti SA support group", president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal [...]

ABDURAHMAN AL GAYDI

A citizen of Saudi Arabia who is probably close to his country's military intelligence service, colonel Abdurahman Al Gaydi has [...]

According to sources close to the political opposition, anti-government units [...]

GROWING BORDER FEARS

Under cover of the withdrawal of UNOSOM contingents from Somalia with a protective umbrella from the US Marine Corps, the [...]

MOHAMED FARAH AIDEED

According to Italy's anti-corruption judge Ms. Gemma Gualdi, the leader of Somali National Alliance, general Mohamed Farah Aideed, is believed [...]

A communique from the two principal rival faction leaders in [...]