Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Somalia: Arms Race vs. Arms Embargo?

Aljazeera's "Inside Story" for 12 February 2013 is a 25-minute program on efforts to lift the arms embargo on Somalia.  For this discussion, I was asked to join Peter Kagwanja, Africa Policy Institute in Nairobi, and Roland Marchal, National Centre for Scientific Research at the Paris Institute of Political Science. For additional information on this subject, see Louis Charbonneau's 10 February 2013 piece in Reuters titled "U.N. Monitors See Arms Reaching Somalia from Yemen, Iran."