Month: September 2012

• A snippet of U.S. elections from abroad… and other stuff

  September 26, 2012

  Miscellaneous

  Dear Readers, I sincerely apologize for having abandoned you for much of the month of September. When last I wrote, I was starting my transit from South Sudan with a brief layover in Kenya, a week of reintegration into DC life, and a week of transition from my current position into a new, albeit temporary… Read.

• With Al-Shabaab on the Run, Kenya Moves on Kismaayo

  September 5, 2012

  African Union, Kenya, Somalia

  (Originally published on RUSI.org on September 5, 2012) In October 2011, the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) invaded southern Somalia with the stated purpose of dismantling Al-Shabaab and seizing the port city of Kismaayo, from which the Islamist militant organisation earns the majority of its revenues. After an initially swift invasion, Kenyan forces languished in southern… Read.