List of Somalia articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Cut-Rate Counterterrorism
Why America can no longer afford to outsource the war on al-Shabab.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Analog War
How to rid Somalia of al-Shabab once and for all -- in six (not-so) easy steps.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We Knew They Were Coming’
The untold story of al-Shabab's murderous attack on the U.N. in Mogadishu.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Demography Is Destiny
Why al-Shabab's Westgate massacre is just the tip of the iceberg for an Africa on the edge of dysfunction.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Twitter’s Week of Reckoning
One major social media service isn't keeping up with its peers in dealing with designated terrorists.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Dangers of Success
Why it's not so simple to crush and kill al Qaeda affiliates.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Africa’s Phoenix
Don't let al-Shabab fool you: Somalia is making progress. But the West needs to change its approach.
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TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images Omar and Me
My strange, frustrating relationship with an American terrorist.
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Nichole Sobecki Crazy Town
After decades of civil war, Somalia is awash in mental illness and without a single trained psychiatrist. That the folk cure for PTSD involves being locked in a room with a hyena isn't helping.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Soldier of Misfortune
David Bax helped save 35 aid workers in a Mogadishu firefight. So why did they turn against him?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is the U.S. Ramping Up a Secret War in Somalia?
Islamists in East Africa were supposed to be on the run. But the raids and spy flights keep increasing.