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Evidence of shelling of SSC / credit: Peoples Dispatch

Separatist Somaliland Escalates War on Somali Unification Movement

Pavan Kulkarni April 10, 2023 Pavan Kulkarni

Attacks by Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia whose sovereignty claim has no international recognition, have caused over 1,500 injuries since February 6 in the city of Las Anod, which is at the heart of the movement to reunify the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) areas with Somalia. Pavan Kulkarni reports for People's Dispatch.

U.S. forces host a range day with the Danab Brigade in Somalia, May 9, 2021 / credit: U.S. Air Force

AFRICOM: Securing African or U.S. Interests?

African Stream April 7, 2023 African Stream

The United States Africa Command—or AFRICOM—was founded in 2007. But it’s failed to bring peace and security. Major failures in Somalia, Libya and elsewhere have left many Africans suspecting it exists only to serve U.S. interests. African Stream reports.

A protest in Taleex, Somalia, on January 15 / credit: Khaatumo Media Office

Protests in Breakaway Somaliland Call for Reunification with Somalia

Pavan Kulkarni January 18, 2023 Pavan Kulkarni

As the United States and the United Kingdom are increasingly legitimizing secessionist rule in Somaliland, whose sovereignty has no international recognition, a unionist movement seeking a united Somalia threatens to unravel the self-declared republic. Pavan Kulkarni of Peoples Dispatch reports.

Ilhan Omar’s Meddling in Horn of Africa Earns Boos at Somali Concert

Ann Garrison July 15, 2022 Ann Garrison

Framed by Republican-oriented media as a backlash against U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s “woke” politics, the boos of a Somali crowd in Minneapolis expressed growing anger over the Democratic congresswoman’s role in U.S. meddling in the Horn of Africa. Ann Garrison reports.

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