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Somalia

January 2024

  • Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed and Somaliland president Muse Bihiagainst a stage backdrop announcing their Memorandum of Understanding

    Ethiopia and Somaliland reach agreement over access to ports

    Naval and commercial access to Somaliland’s coast granted in exchange for recognising republic’s independence

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
  • A grocer counts her money at her stall, with tomatoes and plantain in the foreground and a red fabric shelter in the rear.

    Somalia has reached its debt relief milestone. Now the real work begins

    Dr Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, president of Somalia
    As Somalia secures $4.5bn of debt relief from the IMF and the World Bank, the country’s president outlines the decade-long path it took to reach this goal – and looks towards a better, if still difficult, future
  • Somalia’s deputy prime minister, Salah Jama, centre, speaking at Cop28 in Dubai.

    Climate funding must be faster and easier, says deputy PM of flood-hit Somalia

    Salah Jama said vulnerable countries face ‘bureaucratic bottlenecks’ in receiving loss and damage funds and are often forced to take them on as debt

November 2023

  • Flooding on a street in Beledweyne, in Somalia

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Ethiopia hit by severe drought amid east Africa floods

    More than 50 people dead in Tigray and Amhara regions while UN warns of ‘crisis-level hunger or worse’ in Somalia
  • A chain of people hold on to a rope as they wade through waist-deep waters

    ‘The river took it all’: Somalis wait for waters to recede as floods kill dozens

    Bilan reporters describe devastation across Somalia as ‘once-in-a-century’ floods hit a country reeling from a six-year drought

    • Weather tracker
      Weather tracker: Fatal floods in Somalia and record heat in Tokyo

    • Love letters, gossip, prayers and poetry: the tapes that sustained the Somali diaspora

    • Floods hit Somalia after worst drought in four decades – video report

September 2023

  • large amount of smoke bilowing in the sky above Beledweyne, Somalia

    Dozens killed and injured by truck bomb explosion in Somalian city

    Detonation took place at security checkpoint in Beledweyne, killing at least 18 people

2 August 2023

  • Somali runner takes over 20 seconds to complete 100 metres - screengrab for video cover

    Somali sports minister sorry after ‘slowest ever’ 100m runner goes viral

    Somalia’s sports minister publicly apologized Wednesday for a sprinter who needed more than 20 seconds to complete the 100m at the World University Games
  • A UK aid label on a consignment of supplies at a disaster response centre

    The Guardian view on UK aid spending: slashed budgets, unethical compromises

    Editorial: Rishi Sunak’s government is cutting the cash it gives to the world’s poorest, and now it admits that the results are devastating
  • Afghan women walk along a road at a market area in Kandahar

    Women’s health at risk from UK aid cuts, Foreign Office warned

    Thousands more women will be forced into unsafe abortions and die in pregnancy and childbirth, ministers told

July 2023

  • Workers load grain at a port in Izmail, Ukraine, on 26 April 2023.

    Putin promises free grain to six African nations after collapse of Black Sea deal

  • Sticks poking out of the sand and a house in the desert.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Swallowed by the sand’: Somalia’s coastal towns succumb to the desert

June 2023

  • Simon Tisdall

    Time’s up for Trump, Johnson and Berlusconi – but the damage they have caused lives on

    Simon Tisdall
    Trump, Johnson and Berlusconi are the stars of rightwing populist melodramas. Real people with real-world problems are more deserving of attention
  • Emergency services at the Pearl restaurant at Lido beach, Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday.

    Nine people killed in attack by al-Shabaab in Somali capital Mogadishu

    Islamist militants claim responsibility for blast at popular restaurant on Friday night that injured 20 people
  • African Union peacekeepers provide security during the Somali presidential elections, in Mogadishu in May 2022

    Uganda says 54 African Union peacekeepers killed in Somalia by al-Shabaab militants

    Death toll one of heaviest since pro-government forces launched offensive against jihadists last August

May 2023

  • Ibrahim Jama

    Other lives
    Ibrahim Jama obituary

  • A mother with a child suffering from severe malnutrition in hospital in Baidoa, Somalia

    UK funding cuts to east Africa ‘insulting and shortsighted’, say aid organisations

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