Somali writer Nuruddin Farah speaks during a Reuters interview in Kenya’s capital Nairobi December 4, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya By Edith Honan NAIROBI, Somali writer Nuruddin Farah says his latest novel was born of two frustrations – the triumph of hardline religious conservatism in his homeland, and the scant attention paid to victims of Islamist attacks...
November 14, 2026
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5 Myths About Chinese Investment in Africa
By Deborah Brautigam JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Santa Claus arrived early in South Africa — on a Chinese jet. This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping signed multiple business deals and brought offers of billions in new grants, loans, export credits, and investment funds as African leaders met for the sixth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, a...
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Suspected U.S. Air Strike Targets Islamist Militants in Somalia
By Mohamed Sheikh Nor The Somali army said the U.S. carried out an air strike on a southern Somalia town where a resident said Islamist-militant fighters from the al-Shabaab group are active. The town of Kuunyo-Barrow, about 330 kilometers (205 miles) southwest of the capital, Mogadishu, was rocked by two explosions in the early hours...
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Islamic State Targeting Africa: Top Africom Commander Tells VOA
This undated image made from video released by Islamic State militants in April 2015 purports to show a group of captured Ethiopian Christians taken to a beach before being executed. By Carla Babb STUTTGART, GERMANY—The Syria-based Islamic State group has expanded its reach in Africa, courting Islamist extremists from Nigeria to Somalia while establishing a...
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Ethiopia hit by ‘darkness’: Addis Ababa battles with an opponent that has defeated Africa’s big men
Bad land laws, rules on water, and need to keep cities happy and fat while hurting the farming countryside, have led nations down a dangerous road. The U.S. Embassy in Addis got into the party mood with a bash to mark the Ethiopian Meskel holiday. Now if only the lights could stay on. (Photo/Flickr). IF...
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The case of Somalia and Kenya’s maritime dispute
By Ahmed Hirsi The dispute concerning the delimitation of maritime boundary between Kenya and Somalia in the Indian Ocean has been building up for quite some time and neither side is willing to back down, given the significance of the case which is hinged on various variables such as national pride, sovereignty not to mention...
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Reigniting Somalia’s Political Transition: Q&A with Ken Menkhaus
By John L. Hirsch Recent pushback against Al-Shabaab extremists and a partial easing of tensions between central and state governments have increased hopes for a stable democratic future in Somalia, as it continues to recover from the civil war of the 1990s and 2000s. Nonetheless, Professor Ken Menkhaus of Davidson College—an expert on the country’s ongoing...
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Puntland authorities arrest Somali Channel TV presenter
A screen shot of Jama Yusuf Deperani, left, interviewing Information Minister Mohamoud Hassan on Somali Channel Nairobi, Authorities in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland arrested Jama Yusuf Deperani, a reporter and presenter with Somali Channel TV, on Thursday, according to one of his colleagues and a member of the Media Association of Puntland, who both...
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Operation Atalanta Warship HNLMS GRONINGEN Welcomes Somali Minister
Operation Atalanta hosted the Somali Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources on board the Dutch warship, HNLMS Groningen. The Dutch warship is currently protecting an UN FAO vessel from any potential pirate attack as it deploys fishing aggregating devices (FADs) along the Somali coastline to help develop and improve fishing grounds for Somali fishermen. The...
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BLACK AND WHITE: Kenya’s Criminal Racket in Somalia
By Journalists for Justice (JFJ) Executive Summary Sugar Smuggling Sources from within KDF, parliament and foreign embassies all described to JFJ a situation in which a high ranking military official is at the head of a smuggling network which includes commanders of KDF forces within AMISOM, key figures in the Ministries of Defence, Immigration and...