Stability for Somalia? Road to a feifdom????

[Jamster]

Wed 31 January - 7.30pm

Media Talk: Stability for Somalia? - £5

 

With Rageh Omaar, Michela Wrong, Azeb Wolde-Giorghis, Robert Baer (via phone link). Moderated by Sam Kiley.

 

As government forces supported by the Ethiopian military and US battleships take charge of Somalia, join us as we discuss the future of the Horn of Africa.

 

With no government to speak of since the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in 1991, Somalia has been ruled by warlords who led the country into chaos.

 

Kenya persuaded the warlords to sign a peace agreement in 2004, a new parliament was set up and a president appointed.

 

But its authority was undermined by the rise of an Islamist movement in 2006, which gained control of the south and the capital.

 

At the end of last year Islamist rule was overthrown in a concerted push spearheaded by Ethiopia and the US.

 

Our panel discusses the implications of the Ethiopian and US involvement in Somalia, the alleged Al Qaeda connection and the future facing this war-torn region.

 

Rageh Omaar is a presenter of Witness on Al Jazeera. He was formerly the BBC's Developing World Correspondent.

 

Michela Wrong is a columnist for the New Statesman and author of I Didn't Do It For You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation.

 

Azeb Wolde-Giorghis - CBC Correspondent, specialising in Africa.

 

Robert Baer is a former CIA agent and author of See No Evil, Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold our Soul for Saudi Crude. (Via phone link).

[Jamster]

Oh the address is: 13 Norfolk Place London W2 1QJ 020 7479 8950

 

Nearest Tube is Paddington.

[N.O.R.F]

Is it going to be on TV?

[Peplow throb]

what channel is it going to be on?

[N.O.R.F]

^^Sky Sports

[Jamster]

No dude, it will be life mate.

 

See you all there.

[-Nomadique-]

Any way this could be filmed?