Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
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‘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…
How Bush Snr’s failed Somalia intervention shaped US-Africa ties
As the US bids farewell to former US President George H.W. Bush, in Africa he is remembered most for his failed bid to stabilise Somalia
Somalia’s new regime flounders
Infighting has plunged the federal government into disarray and exposed its dysfunction
‘Somalis must stand united and fight’
The president and citizens believe they must urgently stop al-Shabab ‘before they kill all of us’
AU forces on high alert after Somali minister killed
The African Union peacekeepers say their forces are on high alert a day after a suspected suicide bomber killed the country’s interior minister.
Somali Cabinet fight leads to political paralysis
Somali parliamentarians are vowing not to endorse the proposed Cabinet of the new US-Somali prime minister.