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Baraawe fisherman Bakar Faraj keeps his community’s fishing heritage alive amid economic hardship and social stigma in modern Somalia.

Garowe, 16 August 2025 – The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires its signatories to ensure that persons with

On a recent afternoon in Mogadishu’s Waberi district, Faduma Jeylani sits on mat in her home, surrounded by bundles of colourful thread.

Baidoa – Being a journalist in Somalia is not easy. According to Reporters Without Borders, Somali media workers operate in an

Kismayo – In 1991, when Fatuma Mohamed Abdi first arrived in Kismayo, she was surprised by what she saw there. “The city had no trees in its

Mogadishu – Somalia is recovering after years of conflict which affected so much of society – including the country’s fragile justice system. It is a system that is rebuilding itself but also re-organizing itself – the male…

Garowe – Somalia’s civil war decimated the country’s education sector with formal teaching systems and infrastructures falling apart, qualified teachers fleeing the country and literacy rates plummeting. Now, with adult…

Hargeisa – It is a sweltering day in Hargeisa’s bustling Waheen Market and Aadan Yusuf Jama stands by his mobile business – a wheelbarrow loaded with clothes and shoes for sale. A big smile on his face, the 24-year-old…

Baidoa – At precisely midday, the sound of a bell rings out across the grounds of the Mustaqbal Integrated Primary School, located in the midst of camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Baidoa, in Somalia’s South…

Mogadishu: Leyla Abdi Mohamed wanted to become a journalist from an early age – her motivations stemmed from her firsthand experiences of Somalia’s civil war. “I witnessed firsthand how the civil war and conflicts in my…

Mogadishu – Somalia is at the forefront of countries dealing with the impact of climate change. Droughts and devastating flooding are among the most visible consequences, but the impact goes much deeper: these climate events…

Galkayo – Quite a few cities in the world are split – sometimes by historical differences, sometimes by administrative divisions and, in some cases, by national borders. But very few of them have such a turbulent recent…