Saturday 7 March 2026
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Current
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On Saturday evening, the militant group Al-Shabaab launched a coordinated and deadly attack on one of the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency’s (NISA) key detention facilities in Mogadishu. The assault targeted Godka Jilicow Prison, a maximum-security prison used by NISA to detain and…
On Saturday evening, the militant group Al-Shabaab launched a coordinated and deadly attack on one of the Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency’s (NISA) key detention facilities in Mogadishu. The assault targeted Godka Jilicow Prison, a maximum-security prison used by NISA to detain and…
Opinion
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The third Somali republic is facing a potentially mortal threat as our elites bicker among themselves. But if our leaders seize the moment, they can chart the country a new path forward.…
The third Somali republic is facing a potentially mortal threat as our elites bicker among themselves. But if our leaders seize the moment, they can chart the country a new path forward.…
Opinion
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For decades, Somalia has been the global symbol of state failure, with widespread hunger, terrorism, and bickering elites. This has attracted a long list of foreign actors who claim to want to help, but are their efforts fuelling the country’s problems? …
For decades, Somalia has been the global symbol of state failure, with widespread hunger, terrorism, and bickering elites. This has attracted a long list of foreign actors who claim to want to help, but are their efforts fuelling the country’s problems? …
Interviews
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In his first term, Donald Trump authorised more strikes than all previous US presidents combined, and just 10 days into his second term, he ordered another. Geeska speaks to award-winning journalist, Amanda Sperber, who reported widely on those strikes, about the implications of this…
In his first term, Donald Trump authorised more strikes than all previous US presidents combined, and just 10 days into his second term, he ordered another. Geeska speaks to award-winning journalist, Amanda Sperber, who reported widely on those strikes, about the implications of this…
Analysis
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How did al-Shabaab respond to the overthrow of Assad’s regime? Stig Jarle Hansen, a leading expert on the group, examines their media coverage of the HTS offensive and its potential implications.…
How did al-Shabaab respond to the overthrow of Assad’s regime? Stig Jarle Hansen, a leading expert on the group, examines their media coverage of the HTS offensive and its potential implications.…
Interviews
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Are the Houthis really working with al-Shabaab? Geeska speaks to Christopher Anzalone about the veracity of these reports which began emerging earlier this year. …
Are the Houthis really working with al-Shabaab? Geeska speaks to Christopher Anzalone about the veracity of these reports which began emerging earlier this year. …
Culture
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A construction boom is transforming the Mogadishu skyline. But as investors pump money into new apartment buildings and shopping centres, they're also widening inequality in a city where hundreds of thousands of displaced victims of war and drought struggle to survive.
The boom follows decades of…
A construction boom is transforming the Mogadishu skyline. But as investors pump money into new apartment buildings and shopping centres, they're also widening inequality in a city where hundreds of thousands of displaced victims of war and drought struggle to survive.
The boom follows decades of…
Interviews
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In a newly published paper, a group of researchers argue that checkpoints in Somalia provide us with an opportunity to explore and think about how clans make claims to land and why, in a new analysis that has important implications for how we think about Somali state-building.
In early…
In a newly published paper, a group of researchers argue that checkpoints in Somalia provide us with an opportunity to explore and think about how clans make claims to land and why, in a new analysis that has important implications for how we think about Somali state-building.
In early…
