Word: kismayu
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...peacekeeping force is being expanded, with the hope of creating a "green zone" in Mogadishu. Hundreds of al-Shabab fighters have been pouring into Mogadishu recently in anticipation of a rumored TFG offensive. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has gone further, proposing invading Somalia, occupying the southern port of Kismayu and using it to take the fight to al-Shabab. Memories of the disastrous intervention in 1993 remain sharp, so that is not a proposal that seems likely ever to gain much U.S. support. But it is a measure of the increasing anxiety that Somalia inspires that it is still...
...political solution. Violent attacks on aid workers have increased, threatening to reverse any progress made in the past year. The prospect of renewed anarchy has brought many Somalis to the brink of despair. "It will never be stopped," laments Mohammed Haji Yusur, a doctor in the port of Kismayu, where clan warfare has once again filled his hospital with the dead and wounded. "It will never...
When Captain John Anderson flew into Kismayu last December, the door of his C-141 air transport opened to admit a blast of foul air. "It was the smell of rotting flesh," he recalls. Not far from the airstrip was a pile of partly dismembered bodies in a shallow mass grave, victims of a local warlord. In some places, Somalis who at first welcomed the Americans became resentful when they realized that the U.S. would not simply wipe out the warlords who were terrorizing them. At the same time, soldiers found themselves in mortal danger whenever they seemed...
...everything it could to protect American soldiers at the expense of an effective peacemaking mission. The Marines refused to take on the task of forcible disarmament on any large scale, even with their superior firepower. U.S. soldiers did not intervene in the worst fighting in the port city of Kismayu in February, opting instead for a "show of force" that accomplished nothing. Marines avoided forays beyond the town of Bardera because it would have placed them at risk from land mines and marauding gunmen...
Clan fighting in the southern port town of Kismayu continued, as residents stripped of their rifles by U.S. and Belgian servicemen pelted one another with rocks and lobbed grenades. At least five Somalis were killed and more than two dozen injured...