Featured Topic - Crisis in Somalia

 

Please find news, useful links and EU documents on the crisis in Somalia.

 

 

EU Documents

See Country Profile on the Development Portal

EU HR Solana met Ould Abdallah, UN Special Representative for Somalia , Press Release 10.07.09

Council conclusions on Somalia, 18.05.09

Greater Horn of Africa: Commission allocates 54 million euros to address major humanitarian needs in five countries, Press Release EC, 18.05.09

European Commission assistance to Somalia, Facts and Figures, EC Press Release, 22.04.2009

European Commission plans minimum 60 million euros pledge to help boost security in Somalia, EC Press Release, 22.04.2009

Restoring stability in the Horn of Africa: MEPs debate a boost to peacekeeping mission, The European Parliament, 15/01/2009

MEPs: Gunboats not enough to root out Somali piracy, The European Parliament, 15/12/2008

 

News and reports

14.08.09, Danish Institute for International Studies
Somalia after the Ethiopian withdrawal

10.08.09, BBC
Eritrea rebuffs 'smear campaign'

9.08.09, Daily Nation

Somali Islamists warn over closer US ties

8.08.09, Washington Pos
t
Eritrea confounds US in Somalia

6.08.09, allAfrica
Somalia: Clinton Calls Eritrea's Interference 'Unacceptable'

4.08.09, AFP
Somali leader says US-Somalia meeting important

2.08.09, AFP

Burundi sends troop reinforcements to Somalia

1.08.09, CNN
Global terror warning as Somali militants flex muscles

17.07.09, allAfrica
Somalia: Islamists Order Women in Dobley Town to Take Veil

05.07.09, Telegraph 
Pirates 'smuggling al-Qaeda fighters' into Somalia

05.07.09, Xinhua
U.S. pledges increased military support to Somalia

04.07.09, The Economist
The next jihad

03.07.09, Reuters

African leaders seek sanctions on Eritrea

03.07.09, Reuters
Somali hardline Islamists threaten Ethiopia

26.06.09, The Economist
A government under the cosh

11.06.09, Financial Times
Islamists attacked over attempt to overthrow Somali government
Militant Islamists reasserting themselves as the biggest obstacle to peace in Somalia were yesterday condemned by foreign powers for attempting to "overthrow the legal, legitimate and internationally recognised" government.

02.06.09, BBC News
Somalia crisis 'Africa's worst'
The "very dire" humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa for many years, says Oxfam's co-ordinator for the failed Horn of Africa state.

27.05.09, AFP
Somali leader accuses Eritrea of arming insurgents
Somalia's beleaguered President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Wednesday accused Eritrea of arming Islamic insurgents trying to topple his transitional government.

27.05.09, BBC News
Somali radical takes over militia

23.05.09, Xinhuan
Eritrea rejects Security Council accusations of destabilizing Somalia

23.05.09, International Herald Tribune
For Somalia, Chaos Breeds Religious War
by Jeffrey Gettleman

20.05.09, European Voice
France asks for help to train security force for Somalia
by Toby Vogel

20.05.09, BBC News
Call to blockade Somali Islamists
Somalia's neighbours have called for the UN to impose a blockade on air strips and sea ports to prevent Islamists getting weapons and fighters.

20.05.09, IRIN
Somalia: Al-Shabab's pyrrhic victory?

18.05.09, EUObserver
EU could send police mission in Somalia
by Valentina Pop

18.05.09, The Times
Thousands of civilians flee as Islamists prepare to seize the capital
By Tristan Mc Connell

15.05.09, The Guardian
Foreign fighters ‘driving Somali violence’
by Associated Press

15.05.09, Awdal news
Scared Somalis running  out of food as battles rage
By Mohamed Olad Hassan

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