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Somalia: Déjà Vu Looms
Strategy Page· 24 hours agoJanuary 25, 2021: Somalia is limping towards national elections in February that not all parts of the country agree with. This is why massive corruption persists and a growing ...
Somalia: Somalia April 2024
Strategy Page· 4 days agoThe ship had been captured in December 2023 by Somali pirates using a captured Iranian fishing boat, the Ashkaan, and its crew of 24 Pakistanis. After the pirates boarded the Ruen, the Ashkaan ...
Will Africa be the next continent to abolish the death penalty?
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWhen a young independence fighter called Emmerson Mnangagwa was caught and tried in 1965 in what was...
Somalia: The Past Is Again Prologue
Strategy Page· 6 days agoThe 15 months of delays and two years of disagreements over how to hold these elections were largely the fault of now former president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (also known ...
The growing thirst for camel milk
The Week via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoGrassroots farmers in Africa have been switching from cattle to camels to better cope with droughts, and in 2021 about 64% of the world's camel milk...
Yemen: Currency Retreats, Polio Returns, Fighting Persists
Strategy Page· 2 days agoNovember 9, 2020: Seaborne trade and smuggling between Somalia and Yemen has resumed. Yemen has traditionally been the major trading partner for Somali outlaws. Kenya was ...
Immigrants are helping drive Columbus' population growth and its economy, say experts
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis insight led him to start the transportation company, which now has contracts with a sawmill in...
How climate change is turning camels into the new cows
Washington Post· 2 days agoThe camels had thump-thumped for seven days across northern Kenya, ushered by police reservists, winding at last toward their destination: less a village than a dusty clearing in the scrub, ...
Editorial: If 10 straight months of record-breaking heat isn't a climate emergency, what is?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe planet has recorded 10 straight months of record-high temperates. If world leaders need a jolt...
Locust-busting is getting a upgrade
The Economist· 1 day agoToday, Schistocerca gregaria, also known as the desert locust, is considered the most dangerous migratory pest in the world. In places with fragile food...
