Somalia
The world has grown numb to Somalia’s seemingly endless crises—eighteen years of state collapse, failed peace talks, violent lawlessness and warlordism, internal displacement and refugee flows, chronic underdevelopment, intermittent famine, piracy, regional proxy wars, and Islamic extremism. But it would be a dangerous error of judgment to brush off Somalia’s current crisis as more of the same. Over the past eighteen months, Somalia has descended into terrible levels of displacement and humanitarian need, armed conflict and assassinations, political meltdown, radicalization, and virulent anti-Americanism. Whereas in the past the country’s endemic political violence—whether Islamist, clan-based, factional, or criminal in nature—was local and regional in scope, it is now taking on global significance.
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- Date:10/30/2008Source:http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/30/bombings-in-somalia-the-blowback-continues/
What distinguishes the recent coordinated car-bombings across northern Somalia from the steady stream of bad news to which we have become accustomed coming out of this part of the world?
Bookmark/Search this post with: - Date:09/26/2008Source:http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLM516857.html
NAIROBI, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Nearly two years after being driven from Mogadishu, Islamists have re-taken swathes of south Somalia and may have their sights again on the capital.
The insurgents' push is being led by Al Shabaab, or "Youth" in Arabic, the most militant in a wide array of groups opposed to the Somali government and military backers from Ethiopia, an ally in Washington's "War on Terror".
Bookmark/Search this post with: - Date:09/24/2008Source:http://www.paperarticles.com/2008/09/15-civilians-killed-somali-insurgency.html
MOGADISHU, Sept 24: Militants attacked African peacekeepers in Mogadishu, sparking a battle that killed 11 civilians and sent many fleeing the city in Somalia’s escalating insurgency, witnesses said on Wednesday.
“We have no hope now and I think this is the end of Mogadishu,” mother-of-seven Fatuma Kassim said, joining a stream of residents escaping the coastal capital after shells and gunfire rocked the city on Tuesday night.
In Baidoa, capital of Somalia’s parliament, four people died on Wednesday when a bomb exploded in a donkey-cart, police said.
Bookmark/Search this post with: - Date:09/24/2008Source:http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLO11508.html
MOGADISHU, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Islamists attacked African peacekeepers in Mogadishu, sparking a battle that killed 11 civilians and sent many fleeing the city in Somalia's escalating insurgency, witnesses said on Wednesday.
"We have no hope now and I think this is the end of Mogadishu," mother-of-seven Fatuma Kassim said, joining a stream of residents escaping the coastal capital after shells and gunfire rocked the city on Tuesday night.
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