Can an ex-al-Shabab deputy-turned-Somali official open space for talks?
Easing of international sanctions paved the way for this former militant’s appointment, providing a model for locally-led peace efforts.
Easing of international sanctions paved the way for this former militant’s appointment, providing a model for locally-led peace efforts.
These operations have been going on for 15 years straight — so long that mainstream media barely finds the energy to report on it.
Confronting al-Shabab by ‘mowing the grass’ has proven to be an ineffective path toward ending the conflict and regional peace.
The US is reportedly redeploying troops with AFRICOM receiving a green light on drone strikes.
The world is watching as Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan suffer from systemic spoilers — and it’s getting worse everyday.
There’s a growing array of competing, armed groups on the ground and as usual, the US thinks it can just walk in and sort it all out.
The White House is being cagey, but despite ‘withdrawal’ the military has been operating non-stop on the ground there for 20 years.
Congress’s blank check helped launched conflicts, many currently ongoing, that have nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.
A sudden shift in casualty information provided by AFRICOM after US attacks in Somalia should be cause for concern.
Unfortunately it’s no surprise the White House hasn’t even remarked, much less justified recent actions in Afghanistan and Somalia.
The American interests at stake are unclear and Congress hasn’t provided authorization.
Trump’s instincts to withdraw them from the country were right. Now the Pentagon seems to be reverting back to old, failed strategies.
But Biden could turn it around by making the new Congress decide whether to put troops back into the country, or not.
The U.S.’s military-first approach to counterterrorism in Africa has failed.