Somalia Staggers Towards Better Elections (Ahmed Soliman, Chatham House)

https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/somalia-staggers-towards-better-elections

Somalia asks US to explain strike that 'killed troops' (Al Jazeera)

Angry protesters in northern region burned US flags and images of President Barack Obama after raid.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/somalia-asks-explain-strike-killed-troops-160930035720405.html

Why are efforts to counter al-Shabab falling so flat? (Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)

April 2 marked one year since the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab attacked the Garissa University in Kenya and killed 148 people, galvanizing Kenya to intensify its counterterrorism efforts. Yet al-Shabab’s operational capacities and intimidation power have grown in the past year. Many of Kenya’s counterterrorism policies have been counterproductive, and counterinsurgency efforts by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have at best stagnated. State building in Somalia is only creeping, with service-delivery by the federal government and newly formed states mostly lacking. Politics continues to be clan-based, rapacious, and discriminatory, with the forthcoming 2016 elections in Somalia thus far merely intensifying political infighting.

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Somalia's Sufi revival (Hamza Mohamed, Al Jazeera)

As the last rays of the afternoon sun bounced off the coloured tin roofs of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a group of Sufis came out of a gated house, singing hymns while holding hands, black prayer beads dangling from their hands and necks.

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Somalia's forgotten soldiers (Hamza Mohamed, Al Jazeera)

Two men - one in military uniform, the other in a baggy button-down shirt - sat on a plastic mat in an unfurnished tin-roofed room in the heart of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. They were contemplating how they could voice their plight to those in the country's corridors of power after many failed attempts to reach out.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/03/somalia-forgotten-soldiers-160321120013738.html

US policies do more harm than good in Somalia (Afyare Abdi Elmi, Abukar Arman, Al Jazeera)

To stabilise Somalia, donors and friends must calibrate their policies. Chief among them is the United States.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/02/policies-harm-good-somalia-160221063304153.html

UNGA 2015. Somalia. H.E. Mr. Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, Prime Minister

http://gadebate.un.org/70/somalia