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Crisis Somalia

With its long beautiful coastline and extraordinarily resilient people, Somalia is fighting hard for its emerging democracy. With a brutal insurgency, hunger and a killer drought now afflicting its 17.1 million population, this series examines its determination to survive

9 December 2022

  • Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud at the presidential palace in Mogadishu on 28 May.

    Somalia is not just a story of violence and state failure. Focus on our strengths

    President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
    The country can overcome multiple urgent challenges to achieve sustainable development for and with the people

5 December 2022

  • A woman and man smile as they carry blue and white balloons along a path in a park

    A glimpse of life beyond Mogadishu’s security zone – in pictures

    A rare trip outside the heavily fortified compounds at Aden Adde airport reveals the vibrancy of Somalia’s ancient capital

2 December 2022

  • Mukhtar Robow

    ‘I’m a human being, not a monster’: the al-Shabaab defector turned government minister

    Mukhtar Robow talks to the Guardian about his controversial cabinet role as part of ‘ideological front’ to end insurgency

1 December 2022

  • The Degaan IDP camp in the Galmudug region of Galkayo, Somalia, in November 2022. About 130,000 people are living in temporary camps in the area.

    ‘We’re left to die of snake bites, hunger, disease’: Somalia’s people of the drought – a picture essay

    Drought, hunger, conflict and rampant inflation have pushed about 130,000 people into camps around Galkayo in central Somalia. Many arrive with children suffering acute malnutrition only to face a new set of dangers
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