The last-minute attempt by the Bush administration to force through a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a new peacekeeping mission in Somalia is both ill-advised and ...

Fresh turmoil and uncertainty loom for the people of Somalia - already ravaged by displacement, conflict, drought and hyper-inflation - after the country's interim president resigned on 29 December.

The President of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Mr. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, is 'pondering resignation' from public office following a meeting with the U.S. government's senior Africa ...

Somalia's latest transitional government is collapsing, but there is a chance to rescue a dire humanitarian and security situation if Western and other powers fundamentally revise their approach to a ...

Through December, the political dynamics of Somalia have been determined by the growing expectation on the parts of all actors that exactly two years after Ethiopia invaded south-central Somalia in a ...

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 163rd meeting held at ministerial level, on 22 December 2008, adopted the following decision on the situation in Somalia: