‘Off the Charts’: 133k Somalia Famine Child Deaths

(NAIROBI, Kenya) — A ban on food aid decision by extremist Islamic militants and a "normalization of crisis" that numbed international donors to unfolding...

Why Charcoal May Endanger Somalia’s Best Hope for Peace

On a Monday afternoon in October in a warehouse in the southern Somali port of Kismayo I attended a meeting on the future of Somalia On one side 20 Somali...

Dispatch from Somalia: War, But a Glimmer of Hope

We drive west out of Mogadishu in a convoy of three African Union armored personnel carriers, mounted with three heavy machine guns. No building seems untouched...

How America Settles Down Somalia (And, By Extension the Piracy Problem)

Nice Washington Post story about how the U.S. is training Ugandan soldiers (along with some from Burundi, Sierra Leone and Djibouti) in Uganda on how to do...

17,731

The total number of troops that will be deployed to Somalia after the U.N. Security Council voted to increase an African Union peacekeeping force by nearly half...