Blog Posts in Somalia

Somalia: Challenges to Dictatorship through Black Hawk Down, 1976-1990s

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Feb 7, 2012

This week's post in the series Enough 101 looks at the history of Somalia from dictator Mohammed Siad Barre's rule to the end of Western military engagement in the early 1990s, building off of last week's post that covered colonialism to independence to dictatorship from 1840 to 1976.

Somalia: Colonialism to Independence to Dictatorship, 1840-1976

Posted by Mollie Zapata on Jan 31, 2012

This week's post in the series Enough 101 looks at the history of Somalia.

Kenya In Somalia: Planning The War But Not The Peace?

Posted by Laura Heaton on Jan 17, 2012

Kenya’s landmark incursion into Somalia last October and ongoing military operations present some important opportunities and disquieting potential pitfalls for establishing lasting security in a region controlled by the al Qaeda-linked jihadi group al-Shabaab.

This guest post for Think Progress introduces "After the Kenyan Intervention in Somalia," Enough's latest Somalia report, written by Ken Menkhaus.

Somalia Report: After the Kenyan Intervention

Posted by Enough Team on Jan 14, 2012

Donors and stakeholders from Somalia, the region, and the international community must craft a plan for who will govern southern Somalia if and when Kenya's intervention to oust the jihadi group al-Shabaab succeeds in order to create stability in the highly contested region, said eminent Somalia expert Ken Menkhaus in a new paper published by Enough.

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Posted by Laura Heaton on Jan 13, 2012