Somalia : Avoid Military Option in Somalia, U.S. Urged (AllAfrica.com)
Nairobi Some Somalia experts in the United States are urging the Obama administration to negotiate with Islamist insurgents instead of facilitating a looming military offensive by the country’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
Somali government signs deal with Sufi militia (AP via Yahoo! News)
Somalia’s government has signed an agreement with a powerful militia that offers high-level militants senior government positions in return for their military support during a long-planned offensive against an Islamist insurgency.
U.S. refrains from full dip in Somalia’s murky waters (2) (People’s Daily)
On Friday U.S. officials said Washington had no intention of Americanizing the war in Somalia, a response to a recent New York Times report that said the United States is helping Somalia’s transitional government in an upcoming offensive aimed at taking back the capital by providing training and support. The newspaper also cited unnamed U.S. officials as saying Washington may deploy special …
Too little, too late for Somalia (Guardian Unlimited)
On Saturday I asked if a fatwa could solve Somalia’s problems . The consensus among those commenting seemed to be that it couldn’t and, after hearing scholarly debate on the subject in Dubai , I must concur. But the devil is in the detail.
Somalia s Government Signs Peace Accord With Militia (Update1) (Bloomberg)
March 15 (Bloomberg) — Somalia s transitional government and the Ahlu Sunna wal Jama a militia that controls central parts of the country signed an accord to join forces against the al-Qaeda-aligned al-Shabaab Islamist rebel group.
Somalia illegal charcoal exports fuel war within (TVNZ)
Illegal charcoal exports to Gulf states are a big source of income for rebel groups in Somalia, injecting millions of dollars to the war that has devastated the nation
