Yemen and Somalia: Terrorism, Shadow Networks and the Limitations of State-building
Sally Healy and Ginny Hill - 20 October 2010
Download Paper in Arabic Yemen and Somalia face parallel challenges: insurgencies, terrorism, economic hardship, and ineffective governments that are perceived to lack legitimacy. Western engagement in Yemen and Somalia is based on a state-building framework involving diplomacy, development and defence. Yet the priority attached to security-sector interventions undermines the balance of...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/960/
Livestock Trade in the Djibouti, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
Nisar Majid - 8 September 2010
The pastoral economy and livestock trade form a critical platform for economic interdependence linking Ethiopia's Somali Region to Djibouti, Somaliland and Puntland. Ethiopia's Somali Region provides a major share of livestock exports. Its people are tied through kinship and trade to neighbouring countries, but this also creates the potential for...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/938/
Livestock Trade in the Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian Borderlands
Hussein A Mahmoud - 7 September 2010
The Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia borderlands constitute a dynamic livestock trading zone that supports the livelihoods of thousands of people. Despite the political turbulence of the last 20 years, the export of animals to feed the growing Kenyan market for meat has expanded and flourished. The trade networks have proved resilient and resourceful...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/937/
Somalia: A New Approach
Chatham House - 21 July 2010
This is a summary of an event at Chatham House on 21 July 2010 with Bronwyn Bruton, Author and International Affairs Fellow, Council of Foreign Relations, and Abdirisak Aden, former Permanent Secretary, Department for Information, Transitional Federal Government of Somalia. Event details >>
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/928/
Yemen, the Region and the World: Perceptions of Regional and International Interests
Chatham House - 6 April 2010
Download Paper in Arabic This is a summary of an event held in Sana'a on 6 April 2010 which examined the West's stated commitment to support development in Yemen, questions of security and migration and the potential role of wider regional powers. Key points: 2010 is a crucial year for Yemen in...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/857/
Yemen: Fear of Failure
Ginny Hill - 20 January 2010
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important Red Sea country. It is the poorest state in the Arab world, with high levels of unemployment, rapid population growth and dwindling water resources. President Saleh faces an intermittent civil war...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/827/
Piracy and Legal Issues: Reconciling Public and Private Interests
Chatham House - 1 October 2009
This conference report is drawn from the Piracy and Legal Issues conference held at Chatham House on 1-2 October 2009. While the conference focused on piracy off the coast of Somalia, it was not confined to it, recognising that there has been a resurgence of piracy attacks in other parts...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/799/
Comoros: External Involvement in a Small Island State
Simon Massey and Bruce Baker - 1 August 2009
Download French Summary Comoros, comprised of the three islands Ngazidja, Nzwani and Mwali, has been coup-prone and politically chaotic since independence in 1975. The African Union launched a successful naval and military intervention into the Comoros in March 2007. Little noticed internationally, this intervention was a highly significant development for the...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/767/
Pirates and How to Deal With Them
Roger Middleton - 22 April 2009
This briefing note draws on a meeting of a roundtable of experts held at Chatham House on 26 February 2009 by the Africa Programme and the International Law Discussion Group. It brought together lawyers and practitioners from the military, industry and diplomatic services to clarify some of the legal concerns...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/733/
Entrepreneurs of Violence: Rebel Groups and Militias in Africa
Chatham House - 22 April 2009
This is a transcript of a meeting held at Chatham House on 22 April 2009.
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/742/
Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars
Roger Middleton - 1 October 2008
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has more than doubled in 2008; so far over 60 ships have been attacked. Pirates are regularly demanding and receiving million-dollar ransom payments and are becoming more aggressive and assertive. The international community must be aware of the danger that Somali pirates could become...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/665/
Lost Opportunities in the Horn of Africa: How Conflicts Connect and Peace Agreements Unravel
Sally Healy - 23 June 2008
The conflicts and humanitarian disasters from Sudan to Somalia are closely linked and a failure to understand this is undermining efforts to find peace, says a new report by Chatham House. The report is a study of three peace processes in the region dealing with the conflicts in Somalia...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/630/
The Crisis in Somalia
Transcript of Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah - 19 June 2008
This is a transcript from a meeting held on 19 June 2008 at Chatham House.
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/647/
Conflict in the Ogaden and its Regional Dimension
Sally Healy OBE - 7 September 2007
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/530/
Alternative visions for Somalia
Chatham House - 30 July 2007
On 24 July 2007 Hussen Aideed, who was appointed deputy Prime Minister in Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in 2004 and is now a leading member of the opposition group based in Asmara Eritrea, spoke at a Horn of Africa Group meeting at Chatham House. He outlined how he...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/517/
Yemen and the Horn of Africa
Chatham House - 20 June 2007
Ginny Hill, a freelance journalist who has spent the last 12 months in Yemen, spoke about the refugee crisis as the ongoing troubles in Somalia force more and more people to attempt the dangerous crossing to Yemen. The meeting examined Yemen's role in the Horn and in its various crises.
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/504/
Failed Muslim States: Somalia and Afghanistan
Chatham House - 25 April 2007
The meeting looked at the route to and prospects for the current situations in both Somalia and Afghanistan. Professor Said S Samatar is a well known Somali academic historian and commentator, the author of numerous books and articles on Somali history, politics and culture. Among them are his landmark history...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/522/
The Islamic Courts and Ethiopia�s Intervention in Somali: Redemption or Adventurism?
Professor Said S Samatar - 25 April 2007
Professor Said S Samatar, Professor of African History at Rutgers University, was invited to speak at Chatham House on 25 April 2007. He is a well known Somali academic historian and commentator, the author of numerous books and articles on Somali history, politics and culture. The meeting looked at failed...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/521/
The Rise and Fall of Mogadishu�s Islamic Courts
Cedric Barnes and Harun Hassan - 1 April 2007
Multilateral efforts to support Somalia have been undermined by the strategic concerns of other international actors - notably Ethiopia and the United States. Security in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, has severely deteriorated since the US-backed Ethiopian intervention in the country. The Islamic Courts, which were ousted, had strong support in the country...
http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/458/
President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed - 22 February 2007
Transcript of meeting held in Chatham House on 22 February 2007.