By Peter Vale (CNN) Africa is likely to slide down the list of foreign policy priorities of a Donald Trump administration. This is because America’s foreign policy is determined by both domestic and foreign issues. When it comes to domestic factors Trump is not going to be open to lobbying by the African diaspora in...
October 23, 2026
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A UNIQUELY ADVANCED THERAPY FOR MENTAL HEALTH CARE
By MaanHadal In a small room filled with light, softsmoke blowing from a finely crafted incense burner, a group of men are chewing mouth-watering, bitter-tasting tender stems of Kenyan Miraa – cheerfully tucking handfuls of the stuff into their mouths – displaying swollen cheeks – and squinting with one eye. The scene at the chewing...
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Is Addis Ababa the Wrong Choice for African Union Head-quarters?
By Mohamud Dubet Cities win the right to be the head-quarters of continental bodies for several reasons. First, they have to be centers where divergent political views and opinions are freely expressed, tolerated without a limit, and are genuinely respected. Secondly, power is not the monopoly and preserve of any coterie. It rests with whoever...
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Who Is Warsan Shire? 5 Things to Know About the Poet Who Inspired Beyoncé’s Lemonade
Warsan Shire AMAAL SAID BY TIERNEY MCAFEE Beyoncé’s Lemonade may be a visual album but it still has fans hanging on to the singer’s every word – thanks in part to the award-winning poetry of 27-year-old Somali-Brit Warsan Shire. Shire, a writer who was born in Kenya to Somali parents and raised in London, is...
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The Return of al-Shabaab
Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty WRITTEN BY ALEXANDER MELEAGROU-HITCHENS The Qaeda affiliate gains in Somali while the world frets about ISIS. Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-aligned militia in Somalia, is experiencing some of the most successful months of its recent history. Until recently, many had been tempted to suggest that the group was on its last legs as it faced a...
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Help Guled! #GacanQaboGuled
Hello! We are a team of Somalis, from Somalia and the Somali diaspora who are conducting a fundraiser for Guled , a 13-year old boy genius. Guled is a self-taught inventor, who began creating cars and planes from an early age. Without any formal education, Guled taught himself how to create vehicles and motorise them,...
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Cutting lifelines: ‘If we can’t send money home everyone suffers’
By Rachel Banning-Lover, The Guardian It’s unusual for a nursery worker to actually build a school. But in 1999 Deqa Khalif began to dream that she and some of the other diaspora families who had fled the Somali civil war eight years earlier might be able to do something for their country. “My friends and...
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Mobile money subscribers on the rise across the region
East Africans are now using mobile money platforms to move cash equivalent to a third of the value of goods and services produced in the region, the latest industry statistics show. TEA GRAPHIC | NATION MEDIA GROUP East Africans are now using mobile money platforms to move cash equivalent to a third of the value...
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Young People Have Never Mattered More Than They Do Today
By Waris Mahad For me being politically engaged is incredibly important. I come from a country where the majority of the population are below the age of 54, according to the World Bank. With approximately 1.5 million Somalis living abroad – due to the civil war – it is clear that the diaspora play an...
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AN AMERICAN COMPANY LIKE NO OTHER OPERATING IN MOGADISHU
By Mohamed Osman and Abdelkarim A. Hassan Private sector investment is paramount to development programs in fragile countries and is essential to stimulate economic growth and to create employment opportunities. Nevertheless, these fragile countries such as Somalia face major challenges in accessing finances and investments due to political instability, mass corruption, poor infrastructure, weak institutions,...