by Brendan Zehner | Sep 17, 2013 | Monitor
Matt Freear, an adjunct fellow at the ASP, recently wrote on theHuffington Post blog about Somalia’s future. He writes that Somalia is entering a new phase in its development, after tremendous progress. “The military gains made, resulting from the sacrifice of so...
by Matt Freear | Jun 13, 2013 | Monitor
This October sees the twentieth anniversary of events that came to be known as Black Hawk Down, in which eighteen US military personnel and hundreds of Somalis died. Over a thousand Somalis were injured, hundreds of them civilians, though estimates vary greatly. It so...
by raffaellopantucci | May 28, 2013 | Monitor
And with this I have caught up on a few weeks posting. This one is of course as a result of the recent grim events in Woolwich for RUSI, I did quite a media push around them and I will in due course post links here. More undoubtedly on this as the week goes on. The...
by Matt Freear | May 7, 2013 | Monitor
Today’s Conference on Somalia in London was historic for two reasons. First, it was the best opportunity in the last few decades for Somali leaders to stand up, on a more or less equal footing, with key international partners and decide the future of their country....
by Paul Hamill | May 7, 2013 | Monitor
ASP hosted a conversation with Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, the former Premier of Somalia. The last two years in Somalia has seen militant Islamists in retreat and a country rise from the ashes of chronic conflict and chaos. At the helm during this transformative period, the...