Friday 17 April 2026
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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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Trump’s renewed offer to mediate the GERD dispute has been welcomed in Cairo, but with visible caution. Behind the optimism lies a deep-seated fear of miscalculation, shaped by history and doubts over Washington’s true intentions.…
Trump’s renewed offer to mediate the GERD dispute has been welcomed in Cairo, but with visible caution. Behind the optimism lies a deep-seated fear of miscalculation, shaped by history and doubts over Washington’s true intentions.…
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At a time when the majority of people worldwide are caught between binary choices of two evils, It is worth pausing to reflect on whether it is necessary to align with one in order to fight the other.
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At a time when the majority of people worldwide are caught between binary choices of two evils, It is worth pausing to reflect on whether it is necessary to align with one in order to fight the other.
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Somalia’s generation born in the 1990s came of age amid statelessness, exile, and inherited collapse. Mohamed Isse traces its shared exhaustion and calls for the recovery of thought, responsibility, and a future not borrowed from ruins.…
Somalia’s generation born in the 1990s came of age amid statelessness, exile, and inherited collapse. Mohamed Isse traces its shared exhaustion and calls for the recovery of thought, responsibility, and a future not borrowed from ruins.…
