Understanding the enduring appeal of al-Shabaab—and the failure of state authorities to counter, or even prevent their activities from aiding it—will be key to forming a new security pact for Somalia.
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Michael Keating, the United Nations’ special representative for Somalia, discusses the political and security situation in the country.
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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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Changes to financing have had the predictable knock-on effect of causing political arguments between the African Union, AMISOM troop-contributing countries, and some of the mission’s key partners, most notably the European Union.
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Despite its relatively small cost, the scheme requires international support, particularly given plans to roll it out across Mogadishu’s 17 districts.
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Professor Ken Menkhaus of Davidson College discusses what is needed to get Somalia’s post-civil war political transition back on track.
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Unlike the UN, which publicly catalogs peacekeeper fatalities suffered during its operations by date, mission, nationality, and type of incident, the AU provides no such records for AMISOM.
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Outside the naming of malls, the video is wholly preoccupied with local grievances, thus decreasing the likelihood of an imminent al-Shabaab attack in the West.
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In the short term, the killing of Godane is likely to result in more violent attacks, but longer-term consequences are hard to predict.
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Although it faces some short- and long-term challenges, community policing will be essential if Somalia and Kenya are to manage and contain al-Shabaab’s campaign of violence.
