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 […]
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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
Piracy's Persistence in the Gulf of Guinea
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Martine Cuaron For many years most recorded piracy activity occurred along the African east coast, but Guinea […]