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Somalia

June 2026

  • Military personnel work at computer workstations in an operations control centre in Mogadishu with multiple screens displaying mission information

    Inside the Guardian
    ‘They didn’t know or care, or wouldn’t say’: how we investigated the casualties of a covert US war

  • A seven-year-old boy

    Rights and freedom
    Seven-year-old Abdiqadir was hit in a US airstrike. Without a $750 operation, he may lose his ability to walk

  • A composite photo showing a large military drone, a body wrapped in a sheet on a bed and a damaged shack on a backdrop of US flags

    Rights and freedom
    Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?

  • US military personnel sit at desks with multiple laptops and large wall-mounted screens displaying military imagery and logos

    Rights and freedom
    Why is the US bombing Somalia – and who are the airstrikes killing?

  • Politics Weekly America
    Is Trump about to ruin the World Cup? | Politics Weekly America

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  • The Guardian view on the men’s World Cup: the build-up was unedifying, but now the football takes over

  • ‘Every day it’s more barriers’: how the US is shutting out climate refugees

  • Trump targeting immigrants from countries hit most by climate shocks

  • double quotation markThe most inclusive World Cup ever? Tell that to Omar Artan, the Somali referee just banned by Trump’s US

    Morgan Ofori

  • Omar Artan given hero’s welcome in Somalia after referee’s US entry blocked

  • Drought and floods drove them from their homes. But the hunger followed them

  • Civilians flee as Somali troops and opposition-allied militias trade fire in Mogadishu

May 2026

  • Children with balloons and adults walk on a concrete path surrounded by grass and trees

    Far from the fighting: Eid celebrations in Mogadishu – in pictures

    Photographer Mohamed Gabobe captured the city’s lively enjoyment of the Islamic festival away from the conflict and drought endured by much of Somalia
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  • A Somali man sits in an office next to bundles of banknotes and a big safe on the far wall

    ‘It’s like we went bankrupt overnight’: poorest Somalis suffer as piles of worthless shillings mount up

    Banknotes are now so tattered that even buses refuse to accept them, as a dollarised economy and mobile phone payments push up the cost of essentials

    • ‘It’s about recognising our role in history’: Bradford exhibition to revisit live Somali display

    • Guardian reporter and colleagues detained and beaten by Somali police

    • Women in prison
      Woman jailed in Somalia for peaceful protest ‘stripped, kicked and beaten’

April 2026

  • A woman cooks on a small fire outside sitting on the ground. A child sits next to her. Makeshift tents can be seen behind them

    Calls for humanitarian corridor through strait of Hormuz as Iran war hits vital aid

    Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of people in desperate need, say NGOs
  • The motor vessel Sward on the sea.

    Fears of resurgence in Somali piracy after three vessels hijacked in a week

    Pirates appear to be taking advantage of international naval strength being diverted to Middle East
  • People hand food to each other around a table covered by a blue-and-white cloth

    Ifrah F Ahmed’s debut cookbook is a love letter to Somali cuisine, history and people

    Soomaaliya is one of few cookbooks to examine Somali food and how conflict has reshaped it across the diaspora
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