It's hard to see how this goes bad: Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the killing of 148 people by Somali gunmen at a...
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This is all a bad deal: Over the weekend, Kenyan forces entered Somalia in response to the recent kidnappings of two European tourists (one of whom has since died) and.
My WPR column this week: That didn't seem apparent two years ago, when Dr. Yoav Gortzak and I argued (.pdf) that increasing the density of naval forces off the Horn of.
The Jedi Principle runs so: If you need the Jedi in order to make your project work, don't start. The Jedi Principle comes to mind in the context of defenses of US support for the 2006 Ethiopian invasion of Somalia*. Eli Lake and others have...
Not the first time pirates have lost their lives in a hijack attempt or rescue operation in the Gulf of Aden. But the press is making a big deal of.
This dude's job kind of sucks. If you think you face an uphill challenge at work today, spare a thought for Farah Ahmed Omar, the man in charge of Somalia's.
I'm not sure that I'd draw any conclusions from what's actually a pretty small sample, but Galrahn nevertheless touches on a question that nags at the edge of the piracy debate: If terrorists organization haven't yet taken advantage of the opportunities that maritime piracy seems...
These are not the variables you're looking for:Those who argue that violent justice cannot solve this problem ignore several thousand years of history that suggests otherwise. It is absolutely a.
It's not nice to hold people hostage for two and a half months:"Some crew members on the Ukrainian ship are misbehaving," the pirate said."They tried to harm two of our.
The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners thinks that a blockade of Somali ports would be more effective against pirates than shipping escort. The European Community Shipowners Association thinks that air and cruise missile attacks on pirate bases would be even more effective. And the...
I have another piece on piracy up at Comment is Free. And while we're on the subject, recall that David Axe is heading to Somalia in order to interact with.
BBC:Ethiopia is prepared to withdraw troops from Somalia even if the interim government is not stable, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said.Ethiopia invaded its neighbour in 2006 to oust.