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
Abdallae Ahmed Mumin recalls being shot at and threatened in the line of duty. He escaped with his life, but not all his peers were so lucky.
The Mail & Guardian spoke to Somalis about their relatives who disappeared after signing up for military training and fear they may have been killed
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.
Volunteer paramedics braved danger to minimise casualties in the country’s worst-ever terror attack
The president and citizens believe they must urgently stop al-Shabab ‘before they kill all of us’
Despite years of conflict, al-Shabab remains a potent military and political force, able to occupy territory and launch terror attacks
Unlike other tragedies such as Las Vegas and Manchester, there has been no outpouring on social media for the deadly blast in Somalia.
