Saturday 14 February 2026
conflict
Analysis
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The post-colonial settlement has left Africa vulnerable to conflict, external pressure, and intellectual dependency. What comes next?…
The post-colonial settlement has left Africa vulnerable to conflict, external pressure, and intellectual dependency. What comes next?…
Analysis
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For over a year, South Sudan’s economy has stalled due to the halt in oil exports, the main source of government revenue. With oil exports now resuming, does this signal a return to normality?…
For over a year, South Sudan’s economy has stalled due to the halt in oil exports, the main source of government revenue. With oil exports now resuming, does this signal a return to normality?…
Analysis
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For more than a decade, leaders in Jubaland have resisted the imposition of federal authority. This has been detrimental to Jubaland, but it has also undermined the extension of the federal project. …
For more than a decade, leaders in Jubaland have resisted the imposition of federal authority. This has been detrimental to Jubaland, but it has also undermined the extension of the federal project. …
Thoughts
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Borama is a city renowned for its outsized role in Somali education and for the brilliant minds that have passed through its institutes. But distant clan conflicts have led some in the city to leave, fearing for their safety.…
Borama is a city renowned for its outsized role in Somali education and for the brilliant minds that have passed through its institutes. But distant clan conflicts have led some in the city to leave, fearing for their safety.…
Analysis
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Several reports and analytical articles have been circulating, alleging possible ties between Israel and Somaliland. Suhaib Mahmoud traces how these claims have moved from the fringes to the mainstream. …
Several reports and analytical articles have been circulating, alleging possible ties between Israel and Somaliland. Suhaib Mahmoud traces how these claims have moved from the fringes to the mainstream. …
Opinion
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Somaliland’s leaders often tout the nation’s peace and stability in an otherwise volatile region. Yet beyond the rhetoric, corruption, economic inequality, and political decay are eroding its foundations.
At the height of Britain’s winter of discontent in January 1979, Labour prime minister…
Somaliland’s leaders often tout the nation’s peace and stability in an otherwise volatile region. Yet beyond the rhetoric, corruption, economic inequality, and political decay are eroding its foundations.
At the height of Britain’s winter of discontent in January 1979, Labour prime minister…
Opinion
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Ethiopia has long exerted significant influence across Somalia, but the issues surrounding the Somaliland memorandum have brought a future conflict around its influence into the present, raising important questions about the type of country we want to be.
As President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud…
Ethiopia has long exerted significant influence across Somalia, but the issues surrounding the Somaliland memorandum have brought a future conflict around its influence into the present, raising important questions about the type of country we want to be.
As President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud…
Opinion
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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…
