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Somalia’s Coastal Crisis: Voices From the Edge of the Sea
The Good Men Project - California
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July 6, 2025
By Guest Contributor By Vladyslav Bondarenko, maritime security specialist and Global Voices contributor. Along Somalia’s coastline, thousands of families once relied on fishing for their livelihoods. Today, their boats often return empty. Foreign...
DOGE Team Terminates 256 Wasteful Contracts Worth $14.3 Billion – Including $850k USAID Contract for “Resilience Adviser” in Somalia
The Gateway Pundit
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July 5, 2025
Although they are not making as many headlines as earlier this year when they were first introduced, the DOGE Team is hard at work and continues to save money for American taxpayers. Earlier this week DOGE announced they had eliminated another...
Somalia’s defence minister accuses local businesses of financing Al-Shabaab
Shabelle Media Network
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July 5, 2025
Mogadishu – Somalia’s Minister of Defence, Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, on Friday accused some Somali businesspeople of actively funding the Al-Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabaab, warning that legal action will be taken against those found complicit....
Govt ID systems enable financial inclusion, and without oversight, surveillance
Biometric Update
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July 5, 2025
Biometric databases held by governments form the basis of traditional, centralized digital ID systems, but these system require careful management and oversight to avoid a raft of potential risks to privacy and other rights. The biggest industry...
The Somali Opposition’s Lack of Strategic Negotiation Capacity – Political Analysis
Shabelle Media Network
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July 5, 2025
The second round of talks between the Somali National Salvation Council and President Hassan Sheikh has once again revealed the deep-rooted divergence in views regarding the 2026 electoral process. Although the meetings appear to be a diplomatic...
Jubaland forces disarm militias in Somalia’s Balad-Hawo as tensions rise with federal troops
Shabelle Media Network
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July 5, 2025
Balad-Hawo, Somalia – Jubaland regional forces have carried out a disarmament operation targeting militias and former federal-aligned troops in the southwestern Somali town of Balad-Hawo, amid escalating tensions over security control in the...
Somalia Pays Tribute to Ugandan Peacekeepers Killed in Helicopter Crash
Garowe Online
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Puntland Funds AfDB Project Blocked by Villa Somalia Xarfo, Puntland – The President of Puntland, H.E. Said Abdullahi Deni, on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a new road linking Xarfo town with the city of Galkayo. The project is part of a...
Somalia at 65: what’s needed to address its dismal social development indicators
The Conversation
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July 4, 2025
Somalia ranks among the lowest scoring countries in the United Nations Human Development Index. The index of 195 countries is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, years of...
Somalia Embassy celebrates 65th Independence Anniversary
The Peninsula
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July 4, 2025
Ambassador of Somalia to Qatar H E Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Sheikh Ali speaking at the event. DOHA: The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Somalia in Qatar recently celebrated the 65th anniversary of Somalia’s independence with a special ceremony held at...
Ending Hunger In IGAD Countries: Moving from rhetoric to action
Independent (Uganda)
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July 6, 2025
Tororo Woman Sarah Opendi speaking a the Women Parliamentarians Dialogue on Gender Land and Climate Resilience coefrence hosted at the Parliament of Uganda PHOTO URN KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Countries in the IGAD region, which include...
Somalia’s President Continues National Consultative Forum in Mogadishu
Shabelle Media Network
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July 3, 2025
Mogadishu, July 3, 2025 – Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Thursday hosted a high-level meeting at the presidential palace in Mogadishu, continuing the National Consultative Forum he launched earlier this year in the capital. The...
Somalia has relied on aid for decades – can it survive without it?
The Independent
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July 3, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Surviving Unrepaired Tetralogy of Fallot to 43 Years in a Low-Resource Setting: The Oldest Reported Case from Somalia
Dove Medical Press
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July 4, 2025
Introduction Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is a congenital cyanotic heart defect, first described in detail by Étienne-Louis Fallot in 1888. It is characterized by a combination of four distinct anatomical abnormalities: right ventricular (RV)...
Somalia celebrates 65 years of independence
SABC News
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July 3, 2025
Somali Foreign Affairs Minister Abdisalam Abdi Ali says they are making progress in rooting out the elements of the terror group Al-Shaabab. He says Mogadishu is safe and investors are flocking in the Horn of Africa. Abdi Ali presided over the...
New World Bank Group resident representative for Solomons, Vanuatu
Solomon Star
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July 4, 2025
HONIARA, (WORLD BANK) — Bernard Harborne becomes the World Bank Group resident representative for Solomon Islands and Vanuatu starting from 01 July. This position brings together the World Bank Group’s country-level leadership to better support...
Somali political leaders iron out disputes over election
Shabelle Media Network
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July 4, 2025
MOGADISHU, July 4, 2025 – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Thursday convened the second round of the National Consultative Dialogue with political opposition groups at the Presidential Palace, Villa Somalia, the presidency said. The...
Global Drought Hotspots report catalogs severe suffering, economic damage
Smart Water Magazine
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July 4, 2025
Fueled by climate change and relentless pressure on land and water resources, some of the most widespread and damaging drought events in recorded history have taken place since 2023, according to a UN-backed report launched on July 2. Prepared by...
Economic and human toll of droughts increasing exponentially, UN warns
Edie
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July 3, 2025
Pictured: The Ter river, Spain, run dry in Spring 2023. Report co-author and director of the US National Drought Mitigation Centre, Dr Mark Svoboda, said of the 2023-2025 period: “This is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe,...
Uganda Chairs High-Level Virtual AU Peace and Security Council Meeting on Somalia, July 2025
UBC - Uganda Broadcasting Corporation
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July 4, 2025
In a significant diplomatic engagement, Uganda, this afternoon, presided over the 1287th session of the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC), held virtually at Ministerial level. The meeting chaired by Uganda’s Minister of Foreign...
Puntland Funds Road After Mogadishu Blocks AfDB Aid
The Somali Digest
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July 3, 2025
Bacaadweyn, Puntland — President Said Abdullahi Deni today inaugurated construction of the Bacaadweyne-Galkayo road—a 40-kilometer lifeline that should have been built with African Development Bank funding but will instead be financed entirely...