Prometheus 6

Links to Articles on Somalia
The Editors (2007-01-11)

Somalia: The Next Afghanistan + Iraq?
Issa Shivji (2007-01-11)
Following US attacks in Somalia this week, Issa Shivji argues that Africans have constantly warned of the American military design on the Eastern seaboard of Africa. 

The collapse of the Islamic courts
Adan Abokor and Steve Kibble (2007-01-17)
The Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia has with the backing of Ethiopia and the US taken control of Somalia. Whether the TFG can maintain and extend its control over the whole country will depend on if it can reign in the warlords and how it will deal with the defeated Islamists, write Adan Abokor and Steve Kibble.

Somalia at the crossroads
Harun Hassan (2007-01-11)
The Somali government and its Ethiopian allies – now backed by United States military force – have won the battle for Somalia. But the war cannot end without a political settlement, says Harun Hassan in this article from www.opendemocracy.net

- Somalia as a Military Target

http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0201somalia.html

- Conflict in Somalia: Islamic Courts Abandon Mogadishu as UN Warns of Humanitarian Crisis

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/28/1450201

- Why Did Ethiopia Invade Somalia?

http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-1/614/614_06_Somalia.shtml

- Somalia: Hold the applause

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=11811

- War and Reaction in Ethiopia

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2&ItemID=11767

- Somalia Victimized by U.S., Ethiopia and Their Warlord Allies

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29