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On the Covid frontline in Mogadishu

Africa Abdirahman Yusuf - 16 Aug 2020

Abdirahman Yusuf was determined to document the pandemic, so he went to the place that scared him most — the Covid-19 hospital

On Hodan Nalayeh’s brave legacy, and what it means to be Somali

Africa Ifrah Udgoon - 26 Jul 2020

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 later, the writer Ifrah Udgoon remembers how Nalayeh’s life and work shaped her own

Review: America through Ilhan Omar’s eyes

Africa Ifrah Udgoon - 24 Jun 2020

In this memoir, the first Somali-American woman elected to the US Congress describes how she got there

On the frontline: The junior doctor at Mogadishu’s Covid call centre

Africa Samira Sawlani - 4 May 2020

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

‘The police shoot at journalists all the time’: Press freedom shrinks in Somalia

Africa Amanda Sperber - 13 Feb 2020

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 International report

Somaliland gets the red carpet

Africa Simon Allison - 12 Jul 2019

The self-governing territory’s president received a head of state’s welcome in Guinea, much to Somalia’s fury

Somalia’s enduring Bollywood love affair

Africa Samira Sawlani - 21 Jun 2019

Actor Amitabh Bachchan may not know it, but he has been a superstar in Mogadishu for years

The Portfolio: Madelene Cronjé

Article Madelene Cronjé - 17 May 2019

"For me the image captures a normal moment in an abnormal situation"

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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

Somalia executes man on anniversary of deadly Mogadishu bombing

Africa Mashadi Kekana - 15 Oct 2018

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

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Somaliland’s independence bid boosted by geostrategic shakeup

Africa Simon Allison - 23 Apr 2018

But is Hargeisa sacrificing its values in its quest for independence?

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A Trump decree is killing innocent civilians in Somalia

Africa Staff Reporter - 15 Jan 2018

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

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The unsung heroes of Somali blast

Article Simon Allison - 20 Oct 2017

Volunteer paramedics braved danger to minimise casualties in the country’s worst-ever terror attack

Al-Shabab’s show of force backfires disastrously

Africa Simon Allison - 20 Oct 2017

Despite years of conflict, al-Shabab remains a potent military and political force, able to occupy territory and launch terror attacks

‘Somalis must stand united and fight’

Africa Staff Reporter - 20 Oct 2017

The president and citizens believe they must urgently stop al-Shabab ‘before they kill all of us’

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Sticks and stones: Qwelane and the violence of words

Sarah Smit - 22 Sep 2020

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The Qwelane case: When human rights meet human rights

Sarah Smit - 20 Sep 2020

The Jon Qwelane case brings into focus the tension between hate speech and freedom of expression

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special reports - 23 Sep 2020

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Request for Quotation for Benguela Current Convention Secretariat

special reports - 19 Sep 2020

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Fifteen additional speakers for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

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CUT declared as medium risk

special reports - 15 Sep 2020

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Headline Speakers announced for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 12 Sep 2020

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