Somalia
Drought caused 43,000 ‘excess deaths’ in Somalia last year, half of...
New report uncovers tragic scale of climate-led crisis and warns of up to 34,000 more deaths so far this year
By Tracy McVeigh
21 Mar 2023
A...
UN Has Plan to Curb World Hunger, But EU Won’t Lift...
by Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman
Mar 23, 2023
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is attempting to persuade the European Union to lift sanctions on the...
How the US crushed the struggle for a Somali nation
By Ann Garrison
February 14, 2023
As Somalia struggled to hold its first real national elections since the country collapsed in 1991, the US and its...
The war in Ethiopia: revenge of the Amhara, the future of...
Nov. 25, 2020
On Sunday November 23 the Ethiopian government gave the leadership and units of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) 72 hours to...
US-led wars have displaced 37m people. America should accept responsibility
Since the war on terror, the US has contributed to displacing an estimated 37 million people, according to new research
By David Vine
Sep. 18, 2020
Since...
Inside the secret world of US commandos in Africa
Aug. 10, 2020
United States Special Operations forces (SOF) — including Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets and Marine Corps Raiders — are the US military’s...
World Food Programme warns: COVID-19 pandemic will cause “famines of biblical...
By Jean Shaoul
23 April 2020
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) warned Tuesday that without urgent action and funding, hundreds of millions of...
Esper’s dark vision for US-China conflict makes war more likely
By Bonnie Kristian
March 21, 2020
The Trump administration’s deal with the Taliban may not successfully bring our war in Afghanistan to a close. Some number...
US Drone operator: We are worse than Nazis
Former US drone operator recalls dropping a missile on Afghanistan children and says military is ‘worse than the Nazis’
‘That image on the screen is...
Migrant crisis: Self-immolation exposes UN failures in Libya
By Rana Jawad
31 July 2019
After a horrific two-year ordeal across three countries - being bought and sold by people traffickers and surviving running out...