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International organisations, news houses and corrupt governments are not helping us find sustainable solutions to food insecurity.
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From fascist plantations to the banana wars, Somalia’s favourite fruit carries a history of dispossession and exploited labour. Its uncertain future reveals the inequalities that have outlasted colonial rule.
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Nice piece on the convoluted political economic history of bananas in Somalia. Chimes with the thing we did about bananas and checkpoints and Al Shabaab a while back: riftvalley.net/banana-checkp…
From fascist plantations to the banana wars, Somalia’s favourite fruit carries a history of dispossession and exploited labour. Its uncertain future reveals the inequalities that have outlasted colonial rule.
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Uganda has begun withdrawing its troops from Somalia, bringing to a close nearly two decades of military deployment under successive African Union missions.
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As disputes over Nile waters strain relations between neighbouring countries, the Nile Project brings musicians together across borders, using music to challenge division and promote a sense of shared identity rooted in the river.
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Somalilanders should be free to criticise Israel without having their patriotism questioned, argues Abdilahi Hussein. Yet solidarity with Palestinians should not require Somaliland to set aside its own pursuit of recognition, security and national interests.
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Lana Nusseibeh’s bid opens a new phase in the stalled UN leadership race, with stakes extending across the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa.
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Organise before the next protest. geeska.com/en/organising-nex… @cawralaraage @Geeskaplatform @MarwaadK @HornForum
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My latest for Geeska about the history and future of the banana in #Somalia, through the eras of colonialism, Barre, state collapse, jihadism and more…
From fascist plantations to the banana wars, Somalia’s favourite fruit carries a history of dispossession and exploited labour. Its uncertain future reveals the inequalities that have outlasted colonial rule.
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Can anti-Zionist Somalilanders Speak?
My latest
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As anti-Zionist Somalilander committed to democracy, I fear Israel’s recognition of my country is making loyalty to a diplomatic partner a test of patriotism, narrowing the space for dissent in a republic founded on resistance to oppression.
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Trump’s remarks have raised hopes in Hargeisa, but Washington may prefer a partnership that leaves Somaliland’s status unresolved. The challenge is to show what recognition would deliver that practical cooperation cannot.
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From fascist plantations to the banana wars, Somalia’s favourite fruit carries a history of dispossession and exploited labour. Its uncertain future reveals the inequalities that have outlasted colonial rule.
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“For Somaliland, the task is therefore not simply to identify the next issue capable of bringing young people into the streets. It is to strengthen the conditions under which collective action can become informed, organised and sustained: accessible political education, spaces for deliberation, legal literacy, independent documentation and mechanisms for holding powerful public and private actors accountable. The telecommunications price increase was reversed, but the structural questions it exposed remain. Whether the protests become a turning point will depend less on how quickly the next grievance produces public anger than on the capacity to organise before it arrives.” Writes Marwaad Kayse👇🏿
Somaliland’s telecom protests and Kenya’s Gen Z mobilisation show how shared anger can unite young people. Turning that anger into sustained political action requires knowledge, organisation and spaces for collective debate.
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Somaliland’s telecom protests and Kenya’s Gen Z mobilisation show how shared anger can unite young people. Turning that anger into sustained political action requires knowledge, organisation and spaces for collective debate.
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Both of Sudan’s armies want to be believed. Neither has earned it. Writing for Geeska, acclaimed South African journalist @PaulaSlier examines the struggle to separate fact from wartime propaganda.
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In her music, Fadwa Farid turns pain into rhythm and memory into resistance. Her songs insist that art belongs to the people and that peace remains its deepest calling.
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A diaspora vote won Snit Tewoldemedhin the People’s Choice Award at Miss World. But the freedom to choose is exactly what Eritreans at home don’t have.
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Al-Shabaab’s growing ties with Yemen’s Houthis could boost its capabilities while expanding Houthi influence around Bab el-Mandeb.
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Ethiopia is at war. In truth, it has been for quite some time. But the fighting that has followed the announcement of an alliance between Ethiopia’s key rebel groups has been heavier than anything seen in the country for almost four years, since end the devastating Tigray War. More ominously, these hostilities threaten to escalate into a regional war.
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