Shock and revulsion over Mogadishu bombing
16 October 2017 Conflict
The bomb was as enormous as the flecks of torn skin smudging the ground are miniscule...
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Six major humanitarian challenges confronting the UN General Assembly
18 September 2017 Aid and Policy
Hype over what President Donald Trump may or may not say dominated the media build-up to this week’s UN General Assembly...
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Somalia’s impossible fight against cholera
1 August 2017 Aid and Policy
Ahmed Hussein’s perfectly white teeth seem too big for his mouth; his upper arms look like they belong to a little boy, not a 23-year-old man...
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The Somali pirates are back (SPOILER ALERT: they never really left)
19 July 2017 Migration
A pirate with a full beard makes an ironic salute as I walk towards him across the red gravel of the prison yard in Garowe, the capital of the Soma...
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Displaced and neglected: Ethiopia's desperate drought victims
19 April 2017 Aid and Policy
Dead camels rot on the outskirts of informal settlements in Ethiopia’s rain-starved Somali region as their owners, once proudly self-sufficient pas...
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We are not the world: Inside the “perfect storm” of famine
30 March 2017 Aid and Policy
Like the four countries facing extreme hunger crises today, the famine that gripped Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985 struggled for attention until it was...
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Famine in Somalia: Twice in six years?
28 March 2017 Aid and Policy
Six years after a famine killed a quarter of a million people in Somalia, the country is threatened with another...
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Why there’s no need to panic on UN peacekeeping cuts
24 March 2017 Conflict
Fears are growing that the UN will be forced to drastically cut peacekeeping missions at President Donald Trump’s behest...
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Can aid come in time to avert famine in Somalia?
6 March 2017 Aid and Policy
The drought in Somalia is so severe it threatens not only to trigger famine, but also the viability of the age-old pastoralist way of life...
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Countdown to AMISOM withdrawal: Is Somalia ready?
28 February 2017 Conflict
The swearing-in last week of Somalia’s new President Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmajo” was greeted with a surge of optimism on the streets of Mogadishu t...
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