I am pleased to call to order this hearing of the African Affairs Subcommittee on security and governance issues in Somalia.
Ultimately, the primary architects of what peace, democracy, and development efforts look like must be the Somali people...
In less than 18 months, we were able to bring that country back into a democratic country moving forward because of an A...
I suspect we broadly share frustration about many of the things we read in the media, not all of which I believe.
I think it remains critical first that we fulfill our constitutional duty in a bipartisan manner to examine ongoing and ...
A steady transition from 20 years of statelessness, lawlessness, and violence to a functioning democracy is part of the ...
Today's hearing comes almost exactly two decades after the battle of Mogadishu, in which 18 Americans were killed defend...
I have represented in a number of settings that this is something we really ought to be looking to more broadly.
If you might, for AMISOM to be successful, they need--several of you have recommended greater force projection capabilit...
There seems to be a real tension between a desire for a strong national government to be able to resist intrusion from E...
What should we be doing here forward to ensure that al-Shabaab loses the financial support to continue operations?