Somalia

RAPPROCHEMENT FOR HAWIYE CLANS

At the end of a closed-door meeting held at the Kaah hotel north of Mogadiscio from January 13 to 16, [...]

The president of Somaliland, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, completed a regional [...]

UNOSOM 2: THIS WAY TO THE EXIT

The officer commanding a battalion of Pakistani military in UNOSOM 2, Tariq Salim Maliq, took the occasion of a military [...]

MOHAMED FARAH AIDEED

The leader of the Somali National Alliance, who is still [...]

ABOO SAMAH BIN ABOO BAKAR

The Malaysian army corps general will take over from next [...]

"DISCREET" TALKS IN NAIROBI

The leader of Somali National Alliance (SNA), general Mohamed Farah Aideed, arrived in Nairobi from Addis Ababa on December 29 [...]

MOAMER KHADDAFFI

Struck by the United States' recent retreat before Somalia's general [...]

EDWARD H. JOHNS

The 46-year-old US Navy captain is in charge of the UNDP/UNCTAD project to rehabilitate the ports in Somalia. Captain Edward [...]

TALKS ON UN-HELD SNA PRISONERS

The Somali National Alliance (SNA) headed by general Mohamed Farah Aideed said this week that three of its eight officials [...]

WHY ADDIS ABABA CHOOSES AIDEED

Officials of UNOSOM 2 are apparently convinced that the Ethiopian head of state, Meles Zenawi, opted in favour of general [...]

NAIROBI KILLS EGAL VISIT

Officially invited by Kenya's head of state Daniel arap Moi, the president of Somaliland, Mohamed Ibrahim Egal, was due to [...]

As expected (ION N° 602), the two principal rival factions [...]

FABIO FABBRI

Italy's defence minister said on December 15 that his country's [...]

BELGIAN ARMY FORGIVES ITS OWN SINS

As Belgium prepares to pull its troops from the UNOSOM 2 contingent in Somalia, the commission of inquiry set up [...]

REVAMP FOR FIVE PORTS

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has worked out a financial assistance project for rehabilitating five ports in conflict-riven Somalia [...]

MOHAMED FARAH AIDEED

The leader of Somali National Alliance (SNA) finally showed up in Addis Ababa in a US military aircraft in the [...]

Ethiopia's head of state, Meles Zenawi, took advantage of the [...]

A HYPOTHETICAL RECONCILIATION

The two leading Somali warlords, the interim head of state Ali Mahdi and the head of Somali National Alliance, general [...]

Columnist William Safire, writing in the November 18 issue of [...]