Mogadishu
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To call Mogadishu ‘garbage’ while extolling Botswana’s diamonds in the same sentence is not diplomacy; it is duplicity
Fault line cuts Somaliland’s quest for nationhood
The Las Anod conflict complicates the mission for true independence from Somalia
Getting the story in Somalia can be a deadly affair for journalists
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.
Somali troops may have been drawn into Ethiopia’s civil war
The Mail & Guardian spoke to Somalis about their relatives who disappeared after signing up for military training and fear they may have been killed
On the Covid frontline in Mogadishu
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
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…
Review: America through Ilhan Omar’s eyes
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
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
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…
Somaliland gets the red carpet
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
Actor Amitabh Bachchan may not know it, but he has been a superstar in Mogadishu for years
The Portfolio: Madelene Cronjé
"For me the image captures a normal moment in an abnormal situation"
Civilian body count grows as US intensifies its war in Somalia
Shroud of secrecy around civilian deaths masks possible war crimes
Somalia executes man on anniversary of deadly Mogadishu bombing
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
Somaliland’s independence bid boosted by geostrategic shakeup
But is Hargeisa sacrificing its values in its quest for independence?