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by Yasin Hagi Mohamoud While this year’s United Nations General Assembly convened under the theme, “Galvanizing multilateral efforts for poverty eradication, quality education, climate action and inclusion,” the forum will be unable to achieve a true international effort to tackle these challenges — not due to a lack of commitment, but rather to a failure of...

Three men hit in their vehicle as they were returning home from their fields US has labelled men ‘Al-Shabaab terrorists’ without providing evidence Killings part of an airstrike surge under Trump, which has seen at least 131 killed in US drone and manned aircraft attacks in Somalia  ‘No thought is given to the civilian victims...

The Al-Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for an attack on a US base in Somalia on Monday, as the European Union confirmed a separate strike against a convoy of Italian advisers. The militants hit the US base at Baledogle, about 110 kilometres (70 miles) northwest of the capital Mogadishu, with explosives before gunmen opened fire...

By JOHN KAMAU Somalia seems to be President Uhuru Kenyatta’s current headache. And it is not an easy task handling a troublesome neighbour, as Uhuru’s father found out before him. Uhuru might need the wisdom of his father and tough under-the-table diplomatic dealings to handle the current border issue. His father’s foreign policy was shaped...