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The Foreign Desk - Explainer 401: Don’t rock the boat
24 January 2024
Andrew Mueller explains how Ethiopia has angered Somalia and Egypt in its efforts to secure a coastal base for its boatless navy.
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24 January 2024
Andrew Mueller explains how Ethiopia has angered Somalia and Egypt in its efforts to secure a coastal base for its boatless navy.
3 March 2023
Laura Kramer and Tom Webb take a look at the US increase of its military assistance in Somalia. Plus: we shed a light on a day of fake news and wrap the latest stories in the animal world. Markus Hippi and Fernando Augusto…
25 November 2022
Slovakia hosts the Visegrád Group’s V4 summit, Somalia launches a TV channel aimed at countering al-Shabaab propaganda and Taiwan heads to the polls in local elections. Plus: today’s papers and Andrew Mueller’s irreverent…
10 February 2021
Somalia failed to hold elections before the term of incumbent president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed ended on Monday. Andrew Mueller explains the ramifications for the already fragile country.
17 June 2020
As Somalia conducts talks with the unrecognised government of breakaway region Somaliland, Andrew Mueller asks if Somaliland’s time might be coming.
18 March 2020
The militaries of Kenya and Somalia have been clashing back and forth across the border between the two countries. But is the real reason for the dispute off the coast they share?
22 January 2020
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, fresh from the Libyan peace talks, has signalled that his sights are now set on Somalia. Andrew Mueller asks what he hopes to gain from these partnerships.
22 June 2019
It might feel as though the rest of the world has given up on Somalia. This is not, however, something the rest of the world can afford to do: the country’s perch on the Horn of Africa gives it extraordinary strategic…
6 March 2019
The EU declares that the migrant crisis is over, Michael Bloomberg won’t run for US president in 2020 and Ethiopia’s prime minister continues to push for his role as a regional statesman by helping resolve a row between…
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