Guns, terror and money transfer – Somalia
A few months ago, it looked as if Somalia might be on the verge of recovery. Somalia’s parliament in exile finally met in Somalia, rather… Read More »Guns, terror and money transfer – Somalia
A few months ago, it looked as if Somalia might be on the verge of recovery. Somalia’s parliament in exile finally met in Somalia, rather… Read More »Guns, terror and money transfer – Somalia
Well, that could have been really good news. Yesterday, BBC ran a story celebrating the arrival of a ship at Mogadishu’s main port for the… Read More »14 hours from good news to bad news in Somalia
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On Thursday morning, heavily armed attackers, believed to be members of al-Shabaab, invaded Garissa University and killed 147 students. Mohamed Kuno, a high-ranking al-Shabaab official,… Read More »Paying Attention to Garissa
Once upon a time, there was a blog. It was written in Amharic, the dominant language in Ethiopia, by a team of young journalists and… Read More »Free Zone 9 Bloggers
In my class today, celebrated science journalist Alister Doyle shared an insight that crystalized for me a line of thinking I’ve been exploring about media… Read More »An idea worth at least 40 nanoKardashians of your attention