OSINT Analysis
Af Urur followup - some interesting details
In the course of researching the al-Shabaab attack on Puntland Security Forces at Af Urur on 8 June 2017, a couple of interesting little details emerged. These were not […]
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OSINT Analysis
Finding Af Urur - Al-Shabaab's latest target in Puntland
On the morning of 8 June, Al-Shabaab militants attacked a military base at Af Urur in Bari Region in the semi-autonomous Puntland State. Local officials claimed that the […]
OSINT Analysis
The Kulbiyow attack uncovered
UPDATE: It seems that Jacob Beeders over at Bellingcat scooped this one by a couple of hours: […]
News
Al-Shabaab reportedly overran another KDF military base
Note: this is a rolling post, that will be updated as more information is released or otherwise becomes available. All too familiar sounding details emerge In the early […]
Photo Essays
Making sense of a bizarre firefight in Somalia
In the middle of 2015, Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, best known as al-Shabaab, was about to unleash several noteworthy and significant attacks on AMISOM forces across […]
Podcast
Southern Somalia: Still a way to go
Despite having fallen out of the news in recent months, the war in southern Somalia continues. RICHARD STUPART talks to journalist ADRIANE OHANESIAN about the current […]
Strategy
Structuring the African Military Beyond COIN
African conflicts should not be viewed in the same lens as Iraq and Afghanistan. A perfectly sensible statement, yet one that is ignored in a flood of attention paid […]
News
Why Kenya Must Stay in Somalia
It was a spate of kidnappings and terror attacks that sparked the Kenyan invasion of Somalia in 2011, and it precisely the same reason why Kenya should not for a second […]
News
Crying Wolf - When everything is al Qaeda
Admist the stream of media attention paid towards the fight against M23 in the Eastern DRC, there operates another Ugandan-formed, Congolese-staffed rebel organisation, […]