Category: Academic Papers
Somalia: Interventions from AMISOM have not brought the promised peace
Ohio (HAN) May 9, 2014 – Regular Expert Analysis Contributors, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Opinion Paper by Ambassador Abukar Arman. Ambassador Abukar Arman is the former Somalia special envoy to the United States and a foreign policy analyst. Somalia is held in a nasty headlock by a neighborhood tag-team unmistakably motivated by zero-sum objective.…
Somalia: The Strategic Challenge of Al-Shabaab's Dimensions of Jihad
Nairobi (HAN) May 5, 2014 – Academic Analysis, Your Power & Regional Influence Magazine: Academic Paper by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Middle East Quarterly. Since emerging from an era of colonialism under Italy and Britain, Somalia has passed through military dictatorship, famine, and civil war to regional fragmentation. In the modern period, Americans best remember the loss…
Somalia: Briefing to Update the Security Council
Mogadishu (HAN) April 12, 2014 – In a statement (6975) last year read out by Mark Simmonds, Minister for Africa of the United Kingdom, whose delegation holds the Council’s rotating presidency for the month, the Council underscored the importance of the new Mission, known as UNSOM, quickly establishing a “significant presence” in the Somali capital,…
Eritrea and Ethiopia: Briefing the Final Report, Beyond the Impasse
Khartoum (HAN) April 10, 2014 – Weekly Regional Security and Defence Update and Analysis – Jason Mosley is briefing the final report about the assumptions underlying much analysis about the conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia, saying it was wrong to consider President Isaias acted irrationally or against the interests of the Eritrean state in relation…
The 12th Horn of Africa Conference: Resources, Conflict and Peace in Horn of Africa Region
Djibouti (HAN) April 6, 2014 – OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE CONFERENCE IS TO ESTABLISH ITSELF AS A FORUM FOR KEY STAKEHOLDERS ENGAGED IN NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE HORN OF AFRICA ARE MANAGED IN A RESPONSIBLE, FAIR AND ECONOMICALLY PRODUCTIVE MANNER, AND CONFLICTS CONCERNING NATURAL RESOURCES CAN BE RESOLVED WITHOUT THE COUNTRIES INVOLVED RESORTING TO VIOLENCE…
