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Somalia has made surprising progress in its campaign against Al Shabab. Convincing people the jihadis are the enemy isn’t hard. The challenge is maintaining unity and solidifying gains.

Of damage done to the russian economy because, of course, the russians arent going to sit there and do nothing, firstly. and secondly, there are very close economic connections between, particularly, certain european countries and russia and if you start sanctioning things like energy, does that mean the lights start going out in certain european countries? so the self—harm that, particularly, europeans need to be willing to do to their own countries in order to put in place sanctions that are...

The latest Al Shabaab attacks, which may have had some security backing, aimed to delay the polls again, On 23 March Al Shabaab suicide bombers struck hard in the capital and Beled Weyne, focusing on the heavily-fortified Mogadishu airport complex which houses UN offices and foreign embassies. The militants targeted the section of Aden Adde International Airport. The selection of the speakers of the two houses of parliament and the presidential election were set to take place in this specially s...