Thursday 21 May 2026
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A Somali ethnographer’s fieldwork among her own community reveals that insiderhood is not always a source of trust, but often a site of scrutiny, negotiation, and doubt.…
A Somali ethnographer’s fieldwork among her own community reveals that insiderhood is not always a source of trust, but often a site of scrutiny, negotiation, and doubt.…
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Elected on an anti-tribalism platform, Hargeisa’s mayor, Abdikarim Ahmed Mooge, faces the challenge of avoiding the very clan-based tactics he once opposed. …
Elected on an anti-tribalism platform, Hargeisa’s mayor, Abdikarim Ahmed Mooge, faces the challenge of avoiding the very clan-based tactics he once opposed. …
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Somalia’s election crisis now converges with a deeper institutional fracture, raising the specter of fragmentation, conflict, and a post-federal future.…
Somalia’s election crisis now converges with a deeper institutional fracture, raising the specter of fragmentation, conflict, and a post-federal future.…
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The International community (IC) and African Union (AU) have spent a fortune and tremendous military resources in Somalia since 2006 to fight Al Shabaab. But their strategy has failed because it betrayed the interest of the Somali people.
The making of the catastrophe
Somalia’s civil war led to…
The International community (IC) and African Union (AU) have spent a fortune and tremendous military resources in Somalia since 2006 to fight Al Shabaab. But their strategy has failed because it betrayed the interest of the Somali people.
The making of the catastrophe
Somalia’s civil war led to…
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How the post-2018 optimism in Ethiopia–Sudan relations gave way to renewed rivalry, driven by border disputes, Nile politics, Sudan’s civil war, and the competing influence of Gulf powers within a regional security complex where domestic instability rarely remains contained.…
How the post-2018 optimism in Ethiopia–Sudan relations gave way to renewed rivalry, driven by border disputes, Nile politics, Sudan’s civil war, and the competing influence of Gulf powers within a regional security complex where domestic instability rarely remains contained.…
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The UK government claims Sudanese students are exploiting its generosity. The data suggests otherwise — revealing instead how statistics, stripped of context, can justify policies that punish those fleeing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.…
The UK government claims Sudanese students are exploiting its generosity. The data suggests otherwise — revealing instead how statistics, stripped of context, can justify policies that punish those fleeing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.…
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The US-Israeli war on Iran is the latest expression of a long imperial pattern—one shaped by opportunistic intervention, Western alignment, and the enduring racialized logic of empire.…
The US-Israeli war on Iran is the latest expression of a long imperial pattern—one shaped by opportunistic intervention, Western alignment, and the enduring racialized logic of empire.…
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Somalia’s parliament finalized a controversial constitutional review process, but the process -- overshadowed by haste, a lack of consensus, and a disputed approval threshold -- now risks undermining the federal balance that has anchored the republic since 2012.…
Somalia’s parliament finalized a controversial constitutional review process, but the process -- overshadowed by haste, a lack of consensus, and a disputed approval threshold -- now risks undermining the federal balance that has anchored the republic since 2012.…
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Welcomed in 1969 as a revolution of hope, Mohamed Siad Barre’s military regime swiftly dismantled constitutional rule and built a vast security state to crush dissent. Through censorship, imprisonment, and exile, it hollowed out the country’s intellectual class, leaving a vacuum that deepened…
Welcomed in 1969 as a revolution of hope, Mohamed Siad Barre’s military regime swiftly dismantled constitutional rule and built a vast security state to crush dissent. Through censorship, imprisonment, and exile, it hollowed out the country’s intellectual class, leaving a vacuum that deepened…
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Across ports, pilgrimages, and centuries of movement, Africans became woven into the social and political fabric of Palestine. Their presence reveals a solidarity rooted not in ideology alone, but in lived history, memory, and resistance.…
Across ports, pilgrimages, and centuries of movement, Africans became woven into the social and political fabric of Palestine. Their presence reveals a solidarity rooted not in ideology alone, but in lived history, memory, and resistance.…
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