Back on August 18th, The Weekly N&C set the table for reports of increasing troubles in Somalia. Well, here they are:
Eagle1 has lots about the *rampant* piracy and the countermeasures that are finally beginning to have some effect. Sort his posts by the labels "Somali Pirates" and "Somalia" to get the (long) story of the last month's events.
Nick Grace at Long War Journal has the grim report on the land warfare and lots of good media links and information. To summarize: al-Shabaab has almost carved out a territorial holding in Jubaland and the South, are fully in league with al-Qaeda Central, and the TFG is not able to roll them back.
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Another good argument for why the world can't allow states to fail like this.
Is there any chance at all the international community is paying attention?
@will
re: "Is there any chance..."
Since the U.N. refused to even consider continued re-enforcement of the peacekeeping force as of 4.September, I'll say the answer is...
no.
damn their eyes.
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