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21st February 2012 Nairobi, Kenya

Ambassador to Somalia

Why a stable Somalia is in our interests

As the first British Ambassador to Somalia for twenty years, people often ask me why we should get involved with Somalia at all: haven’t we got enough to worry about? Somalia has an unenviable record as a failed state. Its twenty-year civil war has brought lawlessness and chaos at a massive human cost: one million […]

21st December 2011 Nairobi, Kenya

by Matt Baugh

Ambassador to Somalia

Somalia: Reflections on 2011, Focus on 2012

With 2011 drawing to a close, let’s take a moment to reflect on the past year, and look ahead to the next. 2011 has been a particularly tragic year for Somalia and, most importantly Somalis. Despite a great deal of effort and goodwill by many people both outside and inside of Somalia, the country remains […]