It’s clear now, however, that military officials have been there for several years, and a State Department official told the news service they now believe acknowledging their presence would not endanger their lives. "In the past, our assessment of the security situation in Somalia informed ...
“The terrorist threat in East Africa is not degraded,” the U.S. Department of Defense inspector general warned in a November report. “Al-Shabab retains freedom of movement in many parts of southern Somalia and has demonstrated an ability and inten...
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Lets get a glimpse of what happens in Somalia, courtesy of the latest report from our State Department: Government security forces, including NISA and the Puntland Intelligence Agency (PIA), detained boys and adult men in the same facility and threatened, beat, and forced them to confess to ...
The official said the State Department has overseen Bancroft’s work in Somalia but not Central African Republic or elsewhere. Bancroft’s background Washington-based Bancroft is a nonprofit working in nine countries — five of them in Africa. Its longest-standing presence is in Soma...
The prominent Indian-American academic signatories to the letter include Karna Basu, Associate Professor of Economics, Hunter College, City University of New York; Kalyan Chatterjee, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Management Science, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University; Anind...
Mike Purdy, director of Lamont-Doher- ty, says the expedition was planned in accor- dance with Department of State security guidelines. These guidelines recommend that ships stay at least 19 kilometres off Somalia's coast, because of the risks of piracy and terrorism. Other research vessels ...
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Sanctions and economic war are designed,accordingto the State Department, to “decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” Yet Venezuela has shown significant signs of recovery. Inflation has dropped to manageable levels, and oil and food produ...
I found myself working in Mogadishu, Somalia, for the implementing partner of some [U.S.] State Department contracts. I was writing reports about a Somali police force training program and a Somali special forces training program the United States was doing. I did that for a year, met my...