Despite the goodwill, or general belief that debt relief is critical for Somalia’s development, key international partners still need to fully embrace the process.
Author: Ilya Gridneff
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This week’s deadly al-Shabaab attacks on a Mogadishu hotel and Kenyan troops attached to an African Union peacekeeping mission are a reminder that the militant group’s influence across Somalia owes much more to its strategy of capitalizing on clan and political grievances than to the appeal of its jihadist ideology.The assault on the Dayah Hotel on Wednesday, […]
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Somalia’s government ultimately envisages a 28,000-strong national army, but World Bank/UN projections to be published later this year suggest that they will be unable to afford a force of this size.
