Author: Ismail Abukar
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Breaking the Pretoria Architecture: How Ethiopia’s Fragmented Wars Converged into a Single Existential Threat
When the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement was signed in November 2022, international observers prematurely celebrated the end of one of this century’s most devastating conflicts. ... -
The Sanctuary Parliament How Somalia’s Immunity System Protects Those Who Should Face Justice
The first piece documented who disappeared into Somalia’s detention system. The second — “The Journalists Who Disappeared” — documented who was silenced for reporting it. This ... -
Somalia: A Government With One Foot Out the Door
Somalia’s foreign passport crackdown reveals a governance crisis hiding in plain sight On the afternoon of June 24, 2026, Somalia’s Second Deputy Prime Minister, Jibril Abdirashid ... -
Somalia: The Journalists Who Disappeared
In October 2022, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin — Secretary-General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), the organisation that documents what happens to journalists in Somalia — arrived ... -
Somalia: The Disappeared
On the evening of 26 June 2021, a woman named Ikran Tahlil Farah left her home in Mogadishu after receiving a call from a number she ...
