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His­tory learned # 5 : The Great China Pro­ject

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Is the leak gen­uine? Our Chi­nese source gives us lit­tle on the cred­i­bil­ity of the doc­u­ment other than that it was be­ing passed on di­rectly, not anony­mously, by the TFG. With­out di­rect con­tacts to the in­ner cir­cle of the UIC, we have no way of di­rectly ver­i­fyin... More »

So­ma­lia: Why Am­bas­sador Tina Kaidanow is in Mo­gadishu?

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Pub­lic Diplo­macy and Daily Se­cu­rity Brief­ing for Re­gional Se­cu­rity News. Am­bas­sador Tina Kaidanow is an en­voy of U.S. team­work with other na­tions key to fight­ing ter­ror­ism. Fight­ing ter­ror­ism glob­ally re­quires part­ner­ships with other coun­tries, such as So­ma­lia... More »

Kenya must re­spect the hu­man rights of So­mali refugees

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In the wake of the Garissa Uni­ver­sity Col­lege shoot­ings that left nearly 150 peo­ple dead, the Kenyan gov­ern­ment has threat­ened to close the world’s largest refugee camp. In re­sponse, US Sec­re­tary of State John Kerry promised an ex­tra $45m to the United Na­tions... More »

Kenya has an exit strat­egy from So­ma­lia – of­fi­cials

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NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 2 – The gov­ern­ment has a strat­egy for with­draw­ing Kenyan troops from So­ma­lia, Sen­ate Na­tional Se­cu­rity and For­eign Re­la­tions com­mit­tee Chair­man Yusuf Ha­jji has said. Fol­low­ing a con­sul­ta­tive meet­ing with In­te­rior Cab­i­net Sec­re­tary Joseph Nk... More »

His­tory learned # 4 : The Great China Pro­ject

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UN Se­cu­rity Coun­cil (2006) The US in­tro­duced a res­o­lu­tion into the UN Se­cu­rity Coun­cil in late No­vem­ber, which au­tho­rized African Union peace-keep­ers to de­fend the TFG; it was passed unan­i­mously on De­cem­ber 7. Such a pro­posal will surely not be im­ple­mented in ... More »

On the Road to Re­con­struc­tion: So­ma­lia Looks to African Neigh­bor Rwanda for De­mo­bi­liza­tion and Rein­te­gra­tion Lessons

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STORY HIGH­LIGHTS Na­tional re­con­struc­tion and rec­on­cil­i­a­tion are top pri­or­i­ties for the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment of So­ma­lia as it emerges from two decades of vi­o­lence. As the coun­try moves to im­ple­ment a na­tional pro­gram for dis­en­gag­ing com­bat­ants, it is look­ing to o... More »