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Climate change amplifies conflicts, hinders peacebuilding

Article Agency - 23 Oct 2019

Researches have looked at how climate change has affected the UN mission in Somalia and how it has strengthened radical groups

Kenya plans to close world’s biggest refugee camp Dadaab

Africa Agency - 26 Mar 2019

Kenya has announced that it plans to close Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp, by the end of August

Civilian body count grows as US intensifies its war in Somalia

Africa Simon Allison - 20 Mar 2019

Shroud of secrecy around civilian deaths masks possible war crimes

Six dead in attack at upmarket Nairobi hotel complex

Africa Fran Blandy - 15 Jan 2019

The attack at DusitD2 is the first in Nairobi in five years, when gunmen stormed the city's Westgate shopping mall, killing at least 67 people

Somalia’s illicit charcoal trade threatens security, the environment and livelihoods

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 13 May 2018

The country is losing trees at an alarming rate to an illicit charcoal trade that partly bankrolls its Islamist insurgency

Somalia’s new regime flounders

Article Simon Allison - 13 Apr 2018

Infighting has plunged the federal government into disarray and exposed its dysfunction

A Trump decree is killing innocent civilians in Somalia

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 15 Jan 2018

Trump's new relaxed rules of engagement are killing civilians and breeding the next generation of anti-US fighters.

Double standards: Why is there no #Somalia?

Article Al Jazeera - 16 Oct 2017

Unlike other tragedies such as Las Vegas and Manchester, there has been no outpouring on social media for the deadly blast in Somalia.

The unsung heroes responding to Somalia’s deadliest attack

Africa Simon Allison - 16 Oct 2017

Without Aamin Ambulance, the horrifying death toll would have been even higher

Somalia’s deadliest bombing kills 276, injures 300

Africa Staff Reporter - 16 Oct 2017

At least 276 people have been killed and 300 injured by a massive truck bomb that tore through a busy shopping district of Mogadishu

World leaders condemn Somalia bombing as death toll surges to 276

Africa Agence France Presse - 16 Oct 2017

World leaders from the United States, Britain, Canada and France on Sunday strongly condemned the weekend suicide bombing.

Obama says ‘Africa is on the move’

Africa Staff Reporter - 25 Jul 2015

"People are being lifted out of poverty, incomes are up, the middle class is growing and young people like you are harnessing technology."

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South African tourism to be hit hard by coronavirus

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Court date finally set for death in detention Haffejee inquest

Paddy Harper - 25 Feb 2020

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Achieving the litmus test of social relevance

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The HSS Awards honours scholarly works based on their social relevance and contribution to the humanities and social sciences

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Response to the report of the independent assessors

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

VUT welcomes the publishing of the report of the independent assessors to investigate concerns of poor governance, leadership, management, corruption and fraud at the university.