Somalia Archives - Intervention

As Insecurity Eclipses Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: April 06, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Afghanistan, AK47 assault rifle & grenade launchers, General Olusegun Obasanjo, Somalia, YemenNo CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq The nation is sinking into a deeper mire of insecurity and we have got to a breaking point. We got to this point because of bad politics and poor governance of the rul... Read more

Why the Media is Not Complicit in Conflict As People Think

Posted By: adminon: November 28, 2020In: FlashbackTags: 'CNN Effect', CDD, Danish Cartoon, Johan Galtung, Rwanda, Somalia, ‘Sociology of the newsroom’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja As a panelist on a recent CDD event, one came face to face with a totally surprising clamour for media reports that are not sensational but objective and balanced. This was n... Read more

Policy Brief on Viability of Dialogue With Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram Emerges

Posted By: adminon: July 26, 2019In: De-EscalationTags: Al-Shabaab, BOKO HARAM, Global Terrorism Index, Institute of Security Studies, ISWAP, LSE, NIGERIA, Sciences Po, Somalia, The 'African condition'No CommentsViews:

A new policy brief that counter-insurgency operatives in East and West Africa in particular might want to look at has emerged. Published July 24th, 2019 by the Pretoria based Institute of Se... Read more

Method and Meaning in Media Interrogation of General Danjuma’s Allegation

Posted By: adminon: March 29, 2018In: NewsLogTags: IPOB, MASSOB, Somalia, State captureNo CommentsViews:

General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma is being interrogated in the Nigerian media following his allegation of collusion between the Nigerian military and bandits stalking the country at the maid... Read more

Connecting Toure Kazah Toure to Mary Kaldor for Gov el-Rufai on Southern Kaduna Violence

Southern Kaduna is a problem for everyone. It has assumed a problem which must be fixed before it mutates. It is problematic because it has thrown up complicated narratives embodying subject... Read more

Africa’s is a Crisis of Contested Legitimacy -Tanzanian Opposition Leader’s Interview, Part 2

Posted By: Interven4allon: November 21, 2016In: NewsLogTags: African, BOKO HARAM, Claude Ake, DONALD TRUMP, Europe, GATT, Ghana, Hilary Clinton, John Magufuli, Late Nelson Mandela, Liberia, NATO, Obama, Prof Richard, Professor Mwesiga Baregu, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, UNCTAD, USNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA In part 1 of this interview published October 13th, 2016, Professor Mwesiga Baregu, political scientist and a leading opposition figure in Tanzania outlined the basis... Read more

The Most Powerful African You’ve Never Heard Of

Posted By: Interven4allon: November 19, 2016In: NewsLogTags: Addis Ababa, Africa, Dr Ayo Ajayi, Egypt, Ethiopia, HIV/AIDS, Mozambique, NGO, SIMON ALLISON, Somalia, Tanzania, ZambiaNo CommentsViews:

By Simon Allison A July 15th, 2015 piece in Johannesburg based Daily Maverick, this is republished for whatever it adds to African self-representation. Daily Maverick introduces Simon Alliso... Read more

Herdsmen Violence: Fulani Model of Being Biafrans or False Allegation Against a ‘Historically Dominant Minority’?

By Adagbo ONOJA The provocation for this irregular series mapping what each of the dominant cultural identities has brought to the diversity-crisis nexus in Nigeria has already been located... Read more

Still, No Breakthrough on Development in Africa

Posted By: Interven4allon: October 04, 2016In: Spectacle, UncategorizedTags: Botswana, Burundi, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, IIAG, Libya, Mauritius, Namibia, NIGERIA, Seychelles, Somalia, SOUTH AFRICA, South SudanNo CommentsViews:

By Max Bearak The Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) — the most comprehensive survey of its kind — celebrated its 10th anniversary on Monday with the release of a report that... Read more

General Aliyu Gusau Opens Up on Boko Haram

Posted By: Interven4allon: August 30, 2016In: FlashbackTags: Australia, BOKO HARAM, CHINA, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, GWOT, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Pakistan, Red Sea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Somaliland, South Sudan, Sudan, the EU, Turkey, United States, West Africa, YemenNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau, two time National Security Adviser as well as a former Minister of Defence of Nigeria has thrown into question the Islamicist claims of Boko Har... Read more