Somalia

WILLIAM DRAPER

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator said in Mogadishu [...]

POLICE FORCE NEAR RESUSCITATION

Three European police experts (one each from France, Germany and Italy) arrived in Mogadishu on January 31 to examine the [...]

ALAIN DESCHAMPS

France has nominated its former ambassador to Burkina Faso to the head of the French Embassy in Mogadishu, that has [...]

BILE RAFLE GULEED

The vice-president of the wing of the Somali Patriotic Movement [...]

A meeting of notables followed by another gathering of the [...]

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FRANCE PULLING OUT THE STOPS

With a view to ensuring that the Americans are not the only ones to get in on the diplomatic act in Somalia, and looking ahead to the time when the United Nations will take charge of Operation Restore Hope there, [.

SALVO ANDO

The Italian defence minister said in Rome on January 27 [...]

AUGUSTINE MREMA

Tanzanian radio reported on January 24, the appointment of the [...]

A REAL SCOOP

Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Philips divided up the cake by obtaining permits covering "two thirds of Somalia" before the overthrow [...]

THE ADDIS ABABA ACCORD

After twelve days of heavy discussion, the warring Somali factions signed on January 15 in Addis Ababa, a cease-fire agreement [...]

The then President of the United States George Bush told [...]

SLIPPERY MOVES BY P.M.

According to information obtained by Africa Energy and Mining published by Indigo, the Prime Minister of the provisional Somali government, [...]

CONFUSION AT ADDIS CONFERENCE

The reconciliation conference on Somalia held in Addis Ababa last week under the aegis of the United Nations (ION N°557), [...]

Arab daily al Madinah cited by Bernard Helander's Swedish bulletin [...]

Some sources say that special units of United States reconnaissance [...]

"TRUSTEESHIP" FOR STATE COMPANY?

Saudi Arabian oil interests are currently attempting to set up an state oil company for Somalia that would take the [...]

NO SIGN OF RECONCILIATION

The meeting on Somalia held in Addis Ababa at the start of the week under the aegis of the United [...]

RENE DELHOME

The Commander of the 2,100 French troops in Somali deployed in Operation Oryx, is a veteran of Africa. Born in [...]

HERMAN COHEN

The Deputy Secretary of State for African Affairs told journalists [...]