To call Mogadishu ‘garbage’ while extolling Botswana’s diamonds in the same sentence is not diplomacy; it is duplicity
The Las Anod conflict complicates the mission for true independence from Somalia
Abdirahman Yusuf was determined to document the pandemic, so he went to the place that scared him most — the Covid-19 hospital
Hodan Nalayeh was a Somali journalist famous for telling uplifting, positive stories about her country. She was killed in a terrorist attack in Kismayo in July 2019. A year…
In this memoir, the first Somali-American woman elected to the US Congress describes how she got there
In less than a week, 16 000 Somalis called into the government’s new coronavirus hotline. Dr Jihan Ali works there, advising callers and collecting and providing data to colleagues
Fewer journalists have been killed since President Farmajoo came to power in 2017, but general freedom of expression has been sharply curtailed, as detailed in a new Amnesty…
The self-governing territory’s president received a head of state’s welcome in Guinea, much to Somalia’s fury
Actor Amitabh Bachchan may not know it, but he has been a superstar in Mogadishu for years
"For me the image captures a normal moment in an abnormal situation"
Shroud of secrecy around civilian deaths masks possible war crimes
A man involved in the attack that killed hundreds in Somalia’s capital was executed as the country commemorated the first anniversary of the blast
But is Hargeisa sacrificing its values in its quest for independence?
Trump’s new relaxed rules of engagement are killing civilians and breeding the next generation of anti-US fighters.
Despite years of conflict, al-Shabab remains a potent military and political force, able to occupy territory and launch terror attacks
The president and citizens believe they must urgently stop al-Shabab ‘before they kill all of us’
Volunteer paramedics braved danger to minimise casualties in the country’s worst-ever terror attack
Unlike other tragedies such as Las Vegas and Manchester, there has been no outpouring on social media for the deadly blast in Somalia.
The international relations department said “the SA government will continue to … explore long-term solutions to the scourge of terrorism"
Without Aamin Ambulance, the horrifying death toll would have been even higher
