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“The drought in Somalia has underscored the problems of international aid: its unaccountability, its focus on short-term intervention, and its perpetuation of a social and political system built on tribalism and corruption.” | Writes Liban Mahamad

Ambassador of Thailand to Somalia had a discussion with Director General and Director of Investment, Ministry of Trade of Somalia @MFAupdate  @MFAThai_PR_EN  #Africa  #Somalia  #Thailand  #ForeignPolicy  Read more:

“Every breath counts”: KSrelief and WHO join hands to prevent childhood deaths by increasing access to medical oxygen in Somalia@WHOEMRO  #Africa  #Somalia  #Children  #HumanitarianAid  #Deaths  #KSrelief  #Pneumonia  Read more:

The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) Acting Force Commander visits Kismayo to assess peacekeeping operations @ATMIS_Somalia  #Africa  #Somalia  #Peacekeeping  #Defense  Read more:

“Old Somalia is going to come back,” he replies without hesitation. “This particular generation of non-secular Somalis will die away'' @FT 

''In every generation, there are changes. There was a time when I was in Somalia, and I thought that nearly everyone was like me. There will come a time when Somalis will be more or less like me again.” @FT 

That’s why he can’t write in Somalia, where, he once said with typically grim humour, “it’s cheaper to purchase a gun than a novel”. @FT 

He learnt Somali, Arabic, English and later Italian when his older brother, who went to school across the border in somalia'>Italian-speaking Somalia, started teaching him. His brother, now gone, also introduced him to literature, including Dostoyevsky. @FT 

In North of Dawn, published in 2018, a Somali couple have become thoroughly cosmopolitan Norwegians, but their son joins al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group, and returns to Somalia. . @FT 

“‘I haven’t heard what?’ I said. And that is when he told me that, if I were to return to Somalia, I would receive no less than 30 years in prison.” @FT