It has been a busy week for Somalia - and Somali watchers. Another in a series of international conferences on support to that country has come and gone with plenty of fine words and lots of apparent commitment. And indeed, it rather looks as though there is cause [...]

Two reports on the BBC recently suggest that in their own way the various military operations working on Somalia are having an effect. EU NAVFOR expects the next piracy season to be a difficult one, but they believe that it is generally getting harder for pirates to [...]