Somalia

Although it would be impossible to admit it in public, [...]

UNOSOM 2'S OWN "FACTIONS"

Although the United Nations Operation in Somalia 2 (UNOSOM 2) and the United States appear to be united in its [...]

FRENCH MALAISE

before the most recent crisis in the Somali capital, the French foreign and defence ministries had been considering leaving a [...]

The UNOSOM 2 budget up to October 31 1993 amounts [...]

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IN THE WAKE OF UN RAIDS

The United Nations raids on Somali National Alliance (SNA) positions in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, in a bid to flush the SNA leader, Mohamed Farah Aideed are a demonstration of the political impotence of the international intervention force in Somalia.

ALI KADIYA

In preparation for his future wider responsibility within UNOSOM 2, the commander of the Italian contingent in Somalia, has been [...]

A battalion of 800 soldiers from Malaysia, is expected to [...]

SAYED HUSSEIN

General Mohamed Sayeed Hersi known as "Morgan", leader of the [...]

UN WAGES WAR ON AIDEED

Following the bloody clashes on June 5 in Somalia's capital Mogadishu (ION N°579) that have been blamed on supporters of [...]

FRESH FIGHTING TAKES NASTY TURN

Fighting in the Somali capital on June 5 between the forces of the leader of the Somali National Alliance (SNA), [...]

A GOVERNMENT OF COLONELS

After much deliberation, president Mohamed Ibrahim Egal of Somaliland, elected to the post on May 5 (ION N°576) designated his [...]

JONATHAN HOWE

The special representative of the secretary general of the United [...]

GENERAL AIDEED DEFIES UNITED NATIONS

Officials in charge of the UNOSOM 2 operation suspended on June 1, financial aid (earmarked to pay hotel rooms for [...]

JONATHAN HOWE

The United Nations special envoy to Somalia, Admiral Jonathan Howe [...]

NEW PRESIDENT

The man who was the architect of the union that joined the British colony of Somaliland with Somalia in 1960, [...]

BOUTROS BOUTROS GHALI

The secretary general of the United Nations would like German [...]

BELGIAN VIEW OF SITUATION IN KISIMAYO

Back from Kisimayo, Somalia, where his unit had been relieved by another Belgian contingent, Colonel Marc Jacqmin said in Brussels, [...]

MSF WITHDRAWAL CONFIRMED

The French branch of the humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF France) is to pull out of Somalia completely at [...]

The United Nations Security Council has announced that the mandate [...]