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IS Somalia Final Stand; Egypt-Ethiopia Rivalry in Somalia: Africa File, August 28, 2025
Critical Threats - Washington D.C.
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Key Takeaways: Somalia—IS Somalia. US-supported Somali forces are encountering strong resistance as they try to clear IS Somalia Province’s intricate and well-defended cave complexes in northern Somalia’s Puntland region. The ongoing operations...
Emotional Burdens: Mental Health Challenges for Mogadishu Nurses
Bioengineer.org
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August 28, 2025
In the bustling city of Mogadishu, Somalia, a profound crisis is unfolding that demands urgent attention. The frontline workers tasked with caring for the vulnerable populations—the nurses—are grappling with a silent epidemic of mental health...
PM: “Somalia aims to become a vital link between Africa, the Arab world, and Asia”
Shabelle Media Network
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August 28, 2025
YINCHUAN, China – Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Wednesday declared that Somalia is positioning itself as a strategic hub connecting Africa, the Arab world, and Asia, as he addressed the opening ceremony of the 7th China-Arab States...
University of Somalia’s 19th convocation showcases resurgence of higher learning
Star
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Somalia Education Minister Minister Farah Abdikadir makes his speech at the Convocation ceremony of the University of Somalia (UNISO) in Mogadishu/HANDOUT Somalia’s Education Minister, Farah Abdikadir, has hailed the growth of higher education as...
Somalia to launch first satellite from its territory soon
TASS
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August 26, 2025
HARARE, August 27. /TASS/. Somalia is preparing to launch the first satellite from its territory, a Turkish-owned spacecraft, the Somali Guardian newspaper reported, citing Turkish Ambassador to Mogadishu Alper Aktas. The milestone is part of a...
Knowledge Level and Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals Regarding Patient Safety in a Tertiary Hospital in Somalia: A Cross-Sectional Study
Dove Medical Press
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August 27, 2025
Background Patient safety is a fundamental component of healthcare quality and encompasses the organized activities, cultures, procedures, behaviors, technologies, and environments that consistently lower healthcare risks, reduce avoidable harm,...
These countries are sinking into the sea. What happens when they disappear forever?
The Independent
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August 29, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Africa’s solar imports surge 60%, giving the first evidence of a take-off in solar in Africa: Ember research
Africa Business Communities
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Solar panel imports into Africa rose by 60% in the 12 months to June 2025, according to a new analysis of China’s solar panel exports data from energy think tank Ember. The data shows how the rise happened across Africa, and it is at a scale to...
AU backs new Somali electoral deal as debate splits opposition group
GhanaWeb
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August 29, 2025
Somalia’s key opposition figures have differed sharply on the future and mode of the country’s elections, with some endorsing a deal with the federal government to adopt a parliamentary system. And the deal was backed by regional blocs—the...
Four African countries to ‘run out of supplies to fight malnutrition’ within 3 months due to global aid cuts
The Independent
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August 29, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Teknofest’s maritime edition welcomes visitors on second day of event
Hurriyet Daily News
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ISTANBUL Türkiye’s flagship aviation, space and technology festival, Teknofest, opened its doors on Aug. 29, a day after the event kicked off its special maritime-focused edition. Launched a day earlier under the theme “Blue Homeland,” the...
African Energy Week (AEW) 2025: One Month To Go Until The Global Energy Industry Unites In Cape Town
MENAFN
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August 29, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) With just one month to go until African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies - Africa's largest energy event -, investors, policymakers and project developers are gearing up to discuss strategies for Positioning Africa...
Somalia President Rejects Talks With Madobe and Deni, Roble Reveals
The Somali Digest
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August 21, 2025
Mogadishu, SOMALIA — Former Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble today disclosed that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud explicitly stated during recent meetings with the opposition that he neither interested in inclusive governance nor would he...
China spent 40% more on Pacific drills, Taiwan says
Taipei Times
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August 29, 2025
China spent US$21 billion on military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, the East and South China seas and the Western Pacific last year, nearly 40 percent higher than in 2023, estimates by the Taiwanese government showed, based on its tracking of...
CAR: Ratification of the Maputo Protocol, an essential step – sustained efforts to guarantee women’s and girls’ rights must follow
Amnesty International
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August 29, 2025
Reacting to the ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, (Maputo Protocol) on 26 August by the Central African authorities, Abdoulaye Diarra, Senior Researcher at Amnesty...
India Still Most Populous In World But Baby Boom Shows Signs Of Slowing
India West
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August 29, 2025
The Third World Penis is Mightier than the Sword “We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.” –Arnold Joseph Toynbee Throughout...
From Guernica to Gaza, Air War Is a Horror That Lets Its Perpetrators off the Hook
Common Dreams
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August 29, 2025
Killing from the sky has long offered the sort of detachment that warfare on the ground can’t match. Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in a poem, using the voice of a Nazi...
Somalia’s illicit gulper shark oil trade threatens the entire species
Institute for Security Studies
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Somalia’s illicit gulper shark oil trade threatens the entire species A syndicate in Puntland’s Bosaso port city operates in defiance of a recent ban on shark fishing. Published on 19 August 2025 in ISS Today By Halkano Wario East Africa Regional...
From Resource Curse to Economic Miracle. How Ukraine Can Avoid Becoming the New Somalia
Zerkalo Nedeli
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What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger. —From the catechism of the Drowned God in Game of Thrones series What is the future of the Ukrainian economy after the war? “The Ukraine we lost” is an industrialized country with a...
Somalia’s illicit gulper shark oil trade threatens entire species
Premium Times
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August 18, 2025
The primary landing site for fishing boats in Bosaso, north-east Somalia, is a beehive of activity from 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. every day. Traders, fishermen, food sellers and Puntland government officials haggle, shout and exchange pleasantries over the...