Somalia: not piracy catch all thread

[davidbfpo]

A headline that baffles me somewhat, stumbling along for a failed state means what?

This article is clearly a post-exit, maybe laudatory piece, as it is based on a British diplomat who quietly left his job as the UN secretary general’s Special Representative to Somalia from mid-2013 until December.
Link:http://www.theguardian.com/global-de...kay-al-shabaab

Just as baffling is what did happen last week when a Kenyan base was over-run?

al-Shabab was saying it had killed 100 Kenyan..whilst Kenyan admits four dead

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35364593

Or the stinging attack on a beach restaurant @ Mogadishu:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ures-alshabaab