Investigative Reports

Inside Somalia’s Visa-for-Sale Cartel — Meet Somalia’s Human Smuggler MP

How Ayub Ismail Yusuf and a network of parliamentarians...

From Controversy to Cornerstone: DP World’s Lesson for Egal Airport

Many got DP World's Berbera deal wrong, but Berbera...

Another Fake Degree Scandal Rocks Somaliland Presidency: Director General Caught With Diploma Mill “Masters”

Repeat of 2022 Central Bank Fraud Scandal Exposes Somaliland...

Opinion

BBC Africa Daily Caught up with Dr. Edna of Somaliland

Over the past six decades, Dr. Edna Adan Ismail has been a nurse and midwife. She has spent her life fighting for maternal health...

Witness History: The Somali Pilot Ordered to Bomb his own People in Hargeisa

At the end of May 1988, rebels from the Somali National Movement launched a series of lightening attacks on cities in northern Somalia -...

Questions And Answers with Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Jaushieh Joseph Wu.

Minister Wu took questions from pool of international media reporters in Taipei on October 12th, 2022. The session was moderated by Catherine Y.M Hsu,...

Djibouti needs a Plan B for the post-Guelleh era

After Ethiopia and Eritrea fell out in 1998, Djibouti’s ports became landlocked Ethiopia's only outlet and a critical lifeline for exports and imports to...

July 2021 Employee of the Month: Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inherited a state. He sacrificed it to the dream of an empire. On his current trajectory, Abiy’s political obituary...

Who’s running Haiti after president’s assassination? 5 questions answered

Patrick D Bellegarde-Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Two men are vying to control Haiti after President Jovenel Moïse’s July 7 assassination, creating more turmoil for a...

Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines

Michael Toole, Burnet Institute While Australians may be focused on the havoc the Delta variant is wreaking on our shores, Delta is in fact driving...

Somaliland: Leading by Example

There are no shortages of references, including academic research papers, how-to-books, or philosophical concepts describing the qualities of effective leadership; however, there is one...

Kenya’s huge railway project is causing environmental damage. Here’s how

Tobias Nyumba, University of Nairobi Kenya is constructing a railway line that connects the coastal port of Mombasa and the interior of the country. It...

Somaliland: Lost and found

Somaliland was amongst the seventeen African countries that attained their independence in 1960, “The Year of Africa.” A former Italian colony, Somalia merged on...

The precarious fate of African footballers in Europe after their game ends

Christian Ungruhe, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Sine Agergaard, Aalborg University Think of your favourite former male football player from Europe. You probably remember beautiful goals,...

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