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Somalia

June 2024

  • Aamna Mohdin.

    Scattered by Aamna Mohdin review – the road to survival

    A journalist’s exploration of her family’s chaotic journey from Somalia is startling in its intimacy and honesty

April 2024

  • Somalia's president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

    Somalia accused of ‘threatening national unity’ with new constitution

    State of Puntland refuses to recognise changes to the country’s constitution, which hand greater control to the president

March 2024

  • A man in protective clothing pours some disinfectant into a bucket of water

    Fair Access
    Cholera now threatens 1bn people. It’s time to finish what we began in the 19th century

    Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
    With the disease raging in 23 countries and no vaccine stocks, Zambia and the WHO propose a way to stop the deaths
  • People on the deck of the MV Ruen as an Indian naval helicopter flies overhead.

    Indian navy recaptures Somali pirate ship and frees crew

    Bulgarian-owned MV Ruen was hijacked in December 2023 in rare recent case of Somali piracy

    • Somalia has 99% of $2bn debt cancelled in major boost to fragile recovery

    • Growing gulf between rich and poor countries ‘recipe for much darker future’, says UN

    • Holidays in hell: behind the rise in war tourism

February 2024

  • Protesters in Mogadishu holding posters of Lul Abdi Aziz Jazira, who died after being set on fire.

    Killing of three women in a week sparks femicide protests in Somalia

    Police name husbands as suspects in separate deaths of women, two of whom were pregnant
  • Women wearing purple anti-FMG slogan T-shirts pose for a group photo in Madrid, Spain, 6 Feb 2024

    Anti-FGM caravan embarks on 7,400-mile campaign to end cutting in Africa

    Activists will cross the continent visiting areas where the practice is prevalent to revive progress in protecting women and girls
  • a woman speaks at a lectern

    Ilhan Omar speech proved to be mistranslated but outrage continues spread

    Republicans, rightwing figures and foreign politicians have seized upon the video despite proof the lawmaker was misquoted

January 2024

  • Bilan in the mud of Baidoa - they say they decided to go barefoot because the people they were interviewing were barefoot and they wanted to be the same… I’m not sure how many other journalists would have that kind of sensitivity. They are working hard on the story and are pretty much there in terms of info.

    Somalia to launch its first current affairs TV show led by women

  • Undated photograph released by the US military shows what it says is the vessel that was carrying Iranian-made missile components bound for Yemen's Houthi rebels. Two US Navy Seals who went overboard during the mission have been declared dead.

    Two US Navy Seals declared dead after raid to seize Iranian weapons bound for Houthis

  • Somalian and Egyptian presidents

    Egypt backs Somalia in dispute over Ethiopia-Somaliland deal

  • a missile destroyer in the sea

    Two US Navy Seals missing off Somalia in mission to intercept Iranian weapons

  • ‘We are ready for a war’: Somalia threatens conflict with Ethiopia over breakaway region

  • Al-Shabaab militants seize UN helicopter killing one and abducting five

  • Somalia ‘nullifies’ port agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland

  • Somalia vows to defend sovereignty after Ethiopia-Somaliland deal

  • Ethiopia and Somaliland reach agreement over access to ports

December 2023

  • File photo of al-Shabaab militants parading new recruits.

    US and Somali forces kill al-Shabaab commander with $10m bounty on head

    Maalim Ayman was wanted over attack on airbase in Kenya in 2020 in which three Americans died
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