Monday 18 May 2026
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Opinion
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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. …
Opinion
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Hargeisa’s gated communities and bustling markets showcase the dynamism of Somaliland’s private sector, while nearby, crumbling infrastructure highlights urban growth outpacing local government capacity.…
Hargeisa’s gated communities and bustling markets showcase the dynamism of Somaliland’s private sector, while nearby, crumbling infrastructure highlights urban growth outpacing local government capacity.…
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…
Thoughts
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Patrick Gathara writes about western politics in the same way westerners write about African and Asian countries. His aim is to encourage reflection on the language we use and to highlight the offensive assumptions embedded within it.
Following the televised debate between Donald Trump and…
Patrick Gathara writes about western politics in the same way westerners write about African and Asian countries. His aim is to encourage reflection on the language we use and to highlight the offensive assumptions embedded within it.
Following the televised debate between Donald Trump and…
Opinion
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Hargeisa is sacrificing its sparse greenery on the mantle of fast development and urbanisation; but what we gain in infrastructural progress doesn’t make up for the loss of the plants which once adorned our streets and provided spaces for our community
As I walk around Hargeisa, the capital…
Hargeisa is sacrificing its sparse greenery on the mantle of fast development and urbanisation; but what we gain in infrastructural progress doesn’t make up for the loss of the plants which once adorned our streets and provided spaces for our community
As I walk around Hargeisa, the capital…
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