Get your war on - Somalia Edition

In a post last week, I got into the looming awfulness that is the current state of affairs in Somalia. Well, things are heating up. The Islamic militia backed by Eritrea has apparently assassinated a government minister outside of a mosque in Baidoa. This ratchets up the tension quite a bit in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia and Eritrea are spoiling for a fight (again - they have fought off and on for 35 of the past 50 years) and the Somali government and militia are going to be their respective proxies.

I don’t think this is going to end well. Things in this neighborhood rarely do.