Somalia

Africa Needs a New Map

It’s time to start seeing the redrawing of the continent’s colonial borders as an opportunity, not a threat.

BY G. PASCAL ZACHARY | APRIL 28, 2010

Interview: António Guterres

From Darfur to Afghanistan, the U.N.’s point man on refugees says, the world’s conflicts are getting “more worrisome and more difficult to solve.”

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 23, 2010

Life Inside Somalia’s Bunker Government

An interview with Information Minister Dahir Gelle, as told to FP's Elizabeth Dickinson.

MARCH 5, 2010

Peak Insurgency

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH/APRIL 2010

Africa's Forever Wars

Why the continent's conflicts never end.

BY JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | MARCH/APRIL 2010

The End of Diplomacy?

Once up a time, Americans achieved great things abroad. No longer.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Think Again: Africom

U.S. Africa Command was launched to controversy and has been met with skepticism ever since. Behind two years of mixed messages, a coherent mission might finally be emerging. Here's what you need to know about the world's next U.S. military hub.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Interview: U.N. Undersecretary-General John Holmes

The top humanitarian official for the United Nations tells FP how to do aid in a time of war. Here’s a hint: it’s not pretty.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Terrorizing Aid to Somalia

The United States is willfully letting millions of Somalis go hungry in its drive to hunt down terrorists.

BY NATALIE PARKE | OCTOBER 30, 2009

A Recipe for Somalia

A light footprint won’t work in Afghanistan. Just look at the Horn of Africa for all the reasons why not.

BY RICHARD BENNET | OCTOBER 13, 2009

Arming Somalia

The United States sent RPGs, machine guns, mortars, and -- in the words of one U.S. official -- "cash in a brown paper bag" to Somalia last spring. Foreign Policy reports on how the shipments took place, and who's not happy about it.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

You Ain't Seen Pirates Yet

The disappearance of the Arctic Sea highlighted the growing problem of piracy -- and demonstrated that the world's navies can't stop the coming surge of attacks.

BY J. PETER PHAM | AUGUST 21, 2009

A Somali Surprise?

U.S. officials are worried about the chaos radiating from the Horn of Africa. But how concerned should we be?

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | AUGUST 6, 2009

Somalia: Too Big a Problem to Fail?

A new hotbed of terror could be a domestic problem for Obama. But he shouldn't treat it like one.

BY KEN MENKHAUS | AUGUST 6, 2009

Censoring the Voice of America

Why is it OK to broadcast terrorist propaganda but not taxpayer-funded media reports?

BY MATT ARMSTRONG | AUGUST 6, 2009

The Seven Ways to Stop Piracy

And why none of them will work as well as we might hope.

BY KEN MENKHAUS | APRIL 17, 2009

Why I Keep Going Back to Somalia

What the world's most dangerous place looks like behind the screen of bullets.

BY JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | MARCH 18, 2009

Seven Questions: Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah

Why the U.N. secretary-general's representative in Somalia sees hope for the most dangerous place in the world.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 12, 2009

The Most Dangerous Place in the World

Somalia is a state governed only by anarchy. A graveyard of foreign-policy failures, it has known just six months of peace in the past two decades. Now, as the country's endless chaos threatens to engulf an entire region, the world again simply watches it burn.

BY JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Failed States 2007: There Goes the Neighborhood

In some of the world's most dangerous regions, failure doesn't stop at the border's edge. It's contagious.

JUNE 11, 2007