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Students wave a Somali flag during a demonstration in support of Somalia’s government following the port deal signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland at Eng Yariisow Stadium in Mogadishu on January 3, 2024. (Photo by ABDISHUKRI HAYBE/AFP via Getty Images)
ABIY AHMED

Abiy’s port in a storm

Landlocked Ethiopia wants a port, any port. Somaliland has a coastline and wants someone to recognise the self-governing territory as a fully-fledged country. So a deal was made…

  • Samuel Getachew
  • Simon Allison
  • The Continent
  • Hussein Mohamed
7 min read
Ongoing threat: Although Al-Shabaab was driven out of Mogadishu more than a decade ago and lost control of several towns in recent months, its latest attack on a hotel next to the president’s official residence shows that it remains a danger. Photo: AFP
ADAM HIRSI

Al-Shabaab shocks Mogadishu with 20-hour standoff

The militant group is supposed to be on the back foot, but it retains the capacity to execute deadly raids in the capital city

  • Yunis Dekow
3 min read
HASSAN SHEIKH MOHAMUD

S Sudan calls for calm after president sacks Cabinet

Heavily armed South Sudanese troops and police guarded key government institutions in the capital of Juba after the president suspended his Cabinet.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
HASSAN SHEIKH MOHAMUD

UN voices growing fears for Somalia

The UN has voiced fears about a new media law in Somalia only days after experts sounded the alarm over corruption in the country’s new government.

  • Sapa Afp
2 min read
EU Naval Force French frigate FS Surcouf apprehends suspected pirates on January 6 2013 off the Somali coast.
HASSAN SHEIKH MOHAMUD

Somalia’s president offers amnesty to pirates

Somalia’s president has offered an amnesty to young pirates in a bid to end attacks off the coast as he seeks to rebuild the war-torn country.

  • Boris Bachorz
5 min read
Egyptians have taken to the streets
AFRICA

African leaders in 2012

The Mail & Guardian takes a look at the continent’s new and not-so-new leaders who were elected into office this year.

  • Agencies Author
  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Two suicide bombers walked into a restaurant in central Mogadishu and killed at least 15 people on Thursday
AL SHABAB

Somalia’s new leader survives assassination attempt

Somalia’s new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has survived an assassination bid after bomb blasts – claimed by al-Shabab – rocked a Mogadishu hotel.

  • Sapa Afp
3 min read
Somalia’s president of the now expired Transitional Federal Government Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
AFP

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud elected new Somalia president

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is Somalia’s new president after the 56-year-old university lecturer got the majority of votes in a second round of elections.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read