Your account has been succesfully created.

Subscribe now

SOMALIA SECTION

Since 1992

Past year

Past 6 months

Specific time period

Corridors of power 21/07/2017

Is Mogadishu looking to Egypt to train its military ?

Drastic security measures surrounded a visit by Somali chief of [...]

Corridors of power 21/07/2017

Struggling government sparks concern in West Free

Somali president Mohamed Farmajo and his prime minister, Hassan Ali Khaire, seem confronted by a whole range of complicated political [...]

Corridors of power 07/07/2017

How Farmajo is dealing with Al Shabaab

Washington has thrown its backing behind the Somali government in its bid to divide the Islamist movement. [...]

Business circles 07/07/2017

Strong footing for Erik Prince and First Hectares in free trade zone

The president of Somalia's South West State Region, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, announced the inauguration of a Free Zone Investment [...]

Corridors of power 23/06/2017

Hargeisa and Mogadishu choose their sides in Qatar crisis

While Somaliland has taken Saudi Arabia's side, Somalia has adopted a neutral position in the conflict pitting Qatar against the Gulf Countries. And in doing so each of them struck hard bargains. [...]

Corridors of power 23/06/2017

Army on war footing to assist Amisom

According to our sources, the Ethiopian National Defence Forces' chief [...]

Power brokers 23/06/2017

Mohamed Ali Guyo, new peace negotiator

Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo got the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on June 13 to appoint Kenyan national [...]

Corridors of power 09/06/2017

Turkey and Qatar in play as Farmajo’s wild cards

Turkey has rushed to Qatar’s aid in the crisis pitting Doha against the Gulf monarchies by dispatching troops. But Recep [...]

WHO'S WHO 09/06/2017

Abdirahman Abdi Burhan, mediator and opposition figure

A consultant for the private Swiss organization Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, Abdirahman Abdi Burhan, is the driving force behind a [...]

Corridors of power 26/05/2017

Farmajo's secret plans for the armed forces

Although Somali president Mohamed Farmajo would like to see the Somalia National Army (SNA) become really an army he got [...]

Corridors of power 26/05/2017

U.S. Special Forces take on Al Shabaab

The Pentagon has ordered Africom’s chief, general Thomas Waldhauser, to [...]

Oil 16/05/2017

How will new prime minister handle oil resources?

Somalia’s new prime minister, Hassan Ali Khaire, former head of Soma Oil & Gas (AEI 788), is being pressured to [...]

Corridors of power Document 12/05/2017

How the regions grab profits from ports

A report on "good governance" has cast light on arrangements that largely deprive the central government of revenue from ports. [...]

Spotlight Corridors of power 28/04/2017

Military bases a token of UAE-Turkish rivalry for clout

With Turkey poised to open a training camp for the Somali National Army (SNA) in Mogadishu the United Arab Emirates is equally building several military sites in Somalia. The two countries are locked in a struggle for influence against a [...]

Corridors of power 07/04/2017

Drought raises fresh fears of Al Shabaab assaults

Drought is having unexpected collateral effect in Somalia. The country’s [...]

Business circles 07/04/2017

Call on Turks to board fishing sector

Turkey’s ambassador to Mogadishu, Olgan Bekar, is appealing to Turkish [...]

Oil 28/03/2017

Who is the new muscle-man in oil? Free

With Mogadishu wanting to get the country’s oil exploration back off the ground, the oil and mineral resources ministry has [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 24/03/2017

Behind the scenes in Farmajo-Johnson encounter

Britain’s foreign secretary didn’t discuss only the fight against famine when he met with Somalia’s new president. [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 28/02/2017

A director of Soma Oil becomes prime minister, no less

The future suddenly looks a little brighter for the British [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 24/02/2017

Farmajo begs Kenyatta for help

Newly elected Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, has been quick to make known his desire to forge a reconciliation [...]

Business Circles 24/02/2017

GardaWorld and Aktis Strategy train police

Security companies from Canada and the United Kingdom are soon to give course to Somalia’s police in a UK Foreign Office project. [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 10/02/2017

How Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud’s election strategy came unstuck

Egypt and Ethiopia wanted continuity; in the end Farmajo won. [...]

Spotlight CORRIDORS OF POWER 27/01/2017

How Al-Shabab plans to sabotage the elections

With the re-election on Jan. 11 of Mohamed Osman Jawari as the speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia, and now that Abdi Hashi Abdullahi has taken up the post of the assembly’s Upper House, MPs will soon vote for [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 13/01/2017

Al-Shabaab evicts Islamic State

The fight between Al-Qaeda’s Egyptian leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and Islamic State group caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ended in a victory [...]

CORRIDORS OF POWER 13/01/2017

Djibouti clan split over Somali parliament appointments

The appointment to the Somali federal parliament of three representatives [...]

Refine your search

By continuing your visit to this site, you accept the use of cookies allowing us to adapt and enhance your experience.

Crisis in Qatar sowing dissent in Africa

China reveals the true intentions behind its naval base

President Filipe Nyusi’s northern allies on the look-out for good deals

Mohamed Ould Bouamatou, a self-made man who has become Mauritania’s leading business man