Somalia

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT IN OFFING

The US administration has asked the United Nations to set up a provisional government in Somalia by November 15. The [...]

Exasperated with not being "correctly briefed" by the US general [...]

POLEMICS OVER BELGIAN CONTINGENT

Belgium's defence minister, Leo Delcroix, has been questioned in parliament on the presence and conduct of the Belgian contingent in [...]

HABR GEDIR CLAN SPLIT

Three leaders of the Habr Gedir clan headed by general Mohamed Farah Aideed (Abdulkadir Farah Saddik, Abdi Daher Ougass and [...]

FRENCH SIDESTEPPING ISLAMISTS

France's contingent under UNOSOM 2 orders in Somalia is working on progressively returning Somali displaced persons to their homes from [...]

FIRST RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

An informal meeting of fund donors for Somalia is expected to be held in Paris on October 22 under the [...]

BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI

The United Nations secretary general is to visit Somalia after [...]

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UN CLANGERS

The fiasco of the recent visit to Hargeisa by the head of the political department of UNOSOM 2, Leonard Kapungu, (ION N° 590) has dug even deeper the ditch separating the established authorities of Somaliland and United Nations officials looking [.

MARIO SCIALOJA

Shortly before General Bruno Loi was eased out as general officer commanding the Italian contingent in UNOSOM 2 in favour [...]

UNOSOM SEEKS POLITICAL OUTLET

Western diplomacy's gun changed shoulders this week on Somalia with the US ambassador in Somalia, Robert Gosende, esteeming on September [...]

GIANCARLO MAROCCHINO

The Italian transport boss, who worked for UNOSOM 2 and [...]

A meeting of fund donors for Somalia has been called [...]

MORE VETERINARY ASSISTANCE

The executive committee of European Development Fund, made up of the European Community's member-states, is considering granting a subsidy of [...]

BELGIAN AND FRENCH UNITS LEAVING

France is to pull out eleven hundred troops serving under United Nations orders in Somalia during the period December 15, [...]

According to Italy's foreign minister, Beniamino Andreatta, Rome intends to [...]

LEONARD KABUNGO

The head of political affairs for UNOSOM 2 had some cold shivers last month when he flew to Coriolei, a [...]

UNOSOM 2 SNAFU

The recent visit to Hargeisa by UNOSOM 2's head of political affairs, Leonard Kamungo, turned into a calamitous disaster, according [...]

TALKS FOR A UN SOLDIER

Discreet talks are under way in a bid to obtain the release of a Nigerian member of a United Nations [...]

An old Africa hand and one of the best-known Anglo-Saxon [...]