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13/03/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281

POLITICS & POWER

Africom to train TFG troops

During his visit to Brussels on 4 March, General Richard J. Sherlock director of strategy, plans & programs of African Command (Africom), informed the members of the European Union (EU) Council and the European Commission of the American army program to train non-commissioned officers of the Somalian Transitional Federal Government (TFG) armed services. (...) [296 words] [4€]

13/02/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1279

POLITICS & POWER

French private companies on deck

Registered outside France but with an office in Marseilles, the French private military company KAIS International last year won a contract from a ship-owner to protect its vessels off the coast of Somalia. (...) [279 words] [4€]

20/01/2010

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°620

OIL

Fresh Start for Puntland

The firms Africa Oil, Range Resources and Lion Energy Corp, which are exploring the two onshore blocks of Dharoor and Nogal in Puntland, are to officially relinquish 25% of their two blocks to the local government. (...) [225 words] [4€]

16/01/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1277

POLITICS & POWER

TFG at end of its tether in spite of Amisom

Although it is fully supported by the international community, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has not been able to impose its power beyond a section of Mogadishu and its close suburbs. In spite of announcements made in the media by Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Shararke about the imminent defeat of the Islamic insurgents, the TFG is particularly depending on the African Union Mission to Somalia (Amisom) for its survival. (...) [743 words] [7€]

16/01/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1277

POLITICS & POWER

Green light soon for security support

It was in November 2009 that the European Ministers of Defence adopted the “strategic option” on EUTRA-Somalia. This is a programme to carry out the training in Uganda of 2,000 policemen and soldiers from the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia. (...) [345 words] [4€]

16/01/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1277

POLITICS & POWER/BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Mogadishu

The Crisis Management and Planning Directorate, which comes under the Council Secretariat of the European Union (EU), is working on a longer term project for Somalia. (...) [105 words] [1.3€]

25/12/2009

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1276

POLITICS & POWER/ON THE LINE

The Islamists take over mines in Somalia

The decision by the radical Islamist organisation Al-Shabab to ban the United Nations Mine Action Services (UNMAS) from operating in the zones under its control does not stem uniquely from ideological considerations. (...) [120 words] [1.3€]

12/12/2009

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1275

WHO'S WHO

Mohamud Abdi Ahmed

The founder and head of Shidaal Express, a company operating in the San Diego region in the USA, is being prosecuted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). (...) [129 words] [4€]

12/12/2009

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1275

POLITICS & POWER/ON THE LINE

New security agreement with Puntland

The CEO of the security company Threat Management Group (TMG, based in Kuwait and a subsidiary of Agility), Mark Mitchell and his director of international operations Gérard Righetti, recently went to Puntland. (...) [140 words] [1.3€]

12/12/2009

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1275

POLITICS & POWER/ON THE LINE

Paris has no news of its hostage in Somalia

The French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) has not made any progress whatsoever in its attempts to free its second intelligence agent still being held by Islamist rebels in Somalia after almost five months. (...) [101 words] [1.3€]

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