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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.

Toward Freedom board member Jacqueline Luqman (left) and Kamau Franklin spoke about their work as media makers for Radio Sputnik and Black Power Media, respectively, on a panel held December 11 as part of the first-ever African Peoples' Forum, organized to counter the Biden administration's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. / credit: Julie Varughese

U.S.-Based Africans Organize Events to Counter Biden Administration’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit

Julie Varughese December 12, 2022 Julie Varughese

Hundreds of people of African descent convened this past weekend at two events that aimed to be the people's opposition to the Biden administration's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, which is taking place this week amid a military buildup to enforce the summit's security in Washington, D.C.