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2/16/12 - Aseries of attacks on refugees, aid workers, and Kenyan police has dramatically changed Dadaab refugee camp, which has existed as a camp for over 20 years. Many believe that these attacks are linked to Al Shabab (perhaps in retaliation for Kenya’s recent military incursion into southern Somalia) but the details are not entirely clear.
2/11/12 - The United Nation Security Council last week released details on the strength and command structure of the expanded Amisom peacekeeping force.
11/2/2011 - A US drone attack has killed 20 civilians and injured 60 others in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.
By February 2009, al-Shabaab controlled most of southern Somalia, including the capital of Mogadishu, as depicted in this map.
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Al Shabaab page includes: Introduction, Leadership and Divisions, Tactics and Motivations, Links to al-Qaeda, Future of the Organization
11/15/11: "What’s wrong with Kenya’s invasion of Somalia" - Whatever the actual political motivations of this new effort, military force is unlikely to solve Somalia’s Problems
10/27/11: "Somalia: Kenya’s Invasion and Objectives" - Al-Shabaab is made up of anywhere between 3,000 to around 14,000 fighters by Micah Zenko October 27, 2011
See a map of ethnic clan distribution throughout Somalia as of 2006.
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10/5/11 - FB "The Price of Failure" Since 1991 Somalia has cost the U.S. 55 billion dollars! -- what's remarkable is how little we have to show for it.
Fall 2007 - The International Journal of Security Affairs - "Somalia: Rise and Fall of an Islamist Regime" - info on the rise and fall of the ICU in Mogadishu and U.S. involvement - has great quotes!
10/9/06 - "Somali Islamists declare 'Jihad' on Ethiopia" in response to Ethiopian invasion in July 2006
6/8/06 NYT: "Efforts by C.I.A. Fail in Somalia, Officials Charge" Critique of U.S. backing ARPCT, an alliance of moderate warlords fighting against Islamist extremists in Mogadishu. "This has blown up in our face, frankly,"
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1/30/12 "Is Al-Shabab on the Way Out in Somalia?" The most current report out on the security situation in Mogadishu, focusing on successes of AMISOM and a businessman's perspective.
WHO KNEW? 50 Cent is traveling in Somalia and Kenya with the World Food Programme to document the suffering of the people in the country, who have also been impacted by war in the region.
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2/3/12 The U.N. announces that the famine is officially over, but warned that with recurrent droughts in the Horn of Africa hunger remains a threat unless long-term measures are taken to restore food security.
8/1/11 NYT: "Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine." An article about al Shabaab blocking food aid to famine victims.
9/15/11 NYT: "Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene"
Fascinating numbers and maps from 7/22/11 when the UN declared famine conditions in Somalia.
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6/15/11: "Somali PM Defies Kampala Accord, Refuses to Step Down." Protests in the streets of Mogadishu as much-loved Prime Minister Mohammed Abdullahi Mohamed refuses to leave post as stipulated in Kampala Accord.
US State Department provides background, country profile info, and an up to date history of Somalia.
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An Enough Project paper: "Somalia, A Country in Peril, a Policy Nightmare" from Sept 2008. Gives an awesome overview of the TFG 2004-08.
BBC's Somalia profile overview - includes timeline, facts, leaders, and media - 1960-2011
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Kristof's article about the mounting crisis in Somalia, and the horrific violence that's accompanying the famine.
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