Saturday 6 December 2025
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The circulation of fake news makes it difficult to discern battlefield dynamics; the total blackouts hamper attempts to connect with endangered loved ones.
On April 15, 2023, a war erupted between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and its paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF),…
The circulation of fake news makes it difficult to discern battlefield dynamics; the total blackouts hamper attempts to connect with endangered loved ones.
On April 15, 2023, a war erupted between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and its paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF),…
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In a recent interview, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, expressed with some nostalgia the memory of the brotherhood that once linked the Italian fascist colonizers of the Mussolini era to the African people.
He spoke of a people-to-people relationship,…
In a recent interview, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, expressed with some nostalgia the memory of the brotherhood that once linked the Italian fascist colonizers of the Mussolini era to the African people.
He spoke of a people-to-people relationship,…
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Farmaajo stoked Somali nationalist sentiment, but it is under the Hassan Sheikh administration that it turned once more against Ethiopia
When Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmaajo) was elected Somalia’s ninth president in 2017, the conclusion of the polls were met with celebratory gunfire in…
Farmaajo stoked Somali nationalist sentiment, but it is under the Hassan Sheikh administration that it turned once more against Ethiopia
When Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmaajo) was elected Somalia’s ninth president in 2017, the conclusion of the polls were met with celebratory gunfire in…
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Sudan is bleeding to death and its state failure is approaching the point of no return. The question is bigger than a civil war, more than a humanitarian calamity — it’s whether there can be any life in the Sudanese state for the coming decades.
Yet diplomats at the U.S. State Department, Saudi…
Sudan is bleeding to death and its state failure is approaching the point of no return. The question is bigger than a civil war, more than a humanitarian calamity — it’s whether there can be any life in the Sudanese state for the coming decades.
Yet diplomats at the U.S. State Department, Saudi…
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In early September a video went viral on TikTok showing a woman with a stall full of colorful beaded plastic bracelets. A customer slowly walked toward her, camera in hand, querying which bracelets the vendor had and what they represented. The bracelets bore the standards of Somalia’s crowded…
In early September a video went viral on TikTok showing a woman with a stall full of colorful beaded plastic bracelets. A customer slowly walked toward her, camera in hand, querying which bracelets the vendor had and what they represented. The bracelets bore the standards of Somalia’s crowded…
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Al-Qaeda's Somali offshoot Al-Shabaab has murdered scores of Somalis over the last decade. While President Mohamud's vow to eradicate the terrorist organization has been welcomed, Suhaib Mahamoud questions whether 'arming the clans' will be enough.
Somalia's chronic instability is often described…
Al-Qaeda's Somali offshoot Al-Shabaab has murdered scores of Somalis over the last decade. While President Mohamud's vow to eradicate the terrorist organization has been welcomed, Suhaib Mahamoud questions whether 'arming the clans' will be enough.
Somalia's chronic instability is often described…
