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28 Oct 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
TLDR Humanitarian aid, while crucial, has often overshadowed and undermined local peacebuilding efforts and civil society growth due to unpredictable funding and a focus on short-term crises rather than sustainable development. The authors, Dustin Ba...
30 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has appealed for international medical assistance following a twin car bomb attack in the capital city of Mogadishu that left at least 100 dead and roughly 300 injured. The first vehicle bomb detonated at about...
12 Jan 2021 3 minute read 2 comments Steven_BA
Five days ago, I published Somalia - a failed state! and many people showed great interest in this topic, so I've decided to come up with a series of posts where I present the history of Somalia and the roots of how everything started and led to the...
7 Jan 2021 3 minute read 4 comments Steven_BA
In Somalia is present one of the most ferocious terrorist organizations from the world - Al-Shabaab, a jihadist fundamentalist group based in East Africa, which is most present in Somalia. Most of the terrorist attacks are directed against Western co...
18 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
At least 15 people are confirmed dead and over a dozen others are injured after 4 gunmen attacked the 4-storey Elite Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. The attack started in the afternoon when a car bomb was detonated at the security gate of the hotel. The...
17 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
In an attempt to reduce the transmission of the Covid-19 coronavirus, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered the closure of the nation's land borders with Tanzania and Somalia effective midnight local time on Saturday. The closure will exempt ca...
6 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments AverageVancouverite
An African Express Airways Embraer EMB-120 plane carrying Covid-19 coronavirus medical supplies crashed and burst into flames near the city of Baidoa, Somalia, just before it was about to land at the Bardale airport. All six people on the aircraft, t...
