Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the opening of the new Turkish embassy in Mogadishu in June 2016.
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Turkey harbours strong national ambitions, and a willingness to grow and use its military muscle alongside economic instruments.
A man chases away a swarm of desert locusts in the bush near Enziu, Kitui County, some 200km east of the capital Nairobi, Kenya.
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The best way of dealing with desert locust, as other locust species, is to adopt a preventive management strategy.
Rwandan soldiers line up to receive their UN peacekeeping medals for their work in Juba, South Sudan in 2019.
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The number of personnel deployed in UN peacekeeping has slowly been decreasing.
US service members practising water rescue techniques during a routine training exercise off the coast of Djibouti in 2007.
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Kenya and Djibouti are building a more secure and sustainable domestic maritime sector.
America’s military presence in Somalia could be causing more harm than good.
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The resilience of Al-Shabaab raises questions about the effectiveness of the current US military strategy in Somalia.
Millions of people in the Horn of Africa lack safe, reliable and affordable water throughout the year.
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Drought-driven humanitarian emergencies can be prevented if groundwater is reliably made available at strategic locations.
A soldier on the African Union Mission in Somalia standing guard on a street during a security operation in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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AMISOM’s experiences suggest that urban peace operations must be given sufficient resources from the outset
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed of Somalia (left) and Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta.Their countries are in a row over territory.
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As Kenya and Somalia scramble for offshore oil and gas, foreign investors wait eagerly on the sidelines
A Yemeni national, denied entry into the U.S. because of the travel ban, shows their cancelled visa to reporters as they successfully arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport.
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Was the ban a Muslim ban – or was that just an anti-Trump narrative? A political scientist combs through the data for answers.
Residents of Sake in the Democratic Republic of Congo leave their homes to avoid clashes between rebels and government forces.
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More than two out of three displaced people are not refugees, but remain within their own country.
A female Aedes albopictus mosquito feeding on a human host.
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While no deaths have been reported in Ethiopia so far, outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease spread rapidly and have severe impacts on public health.
Several African states are struggling to stem violent extremism.
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It is time to reconsider the predominant strategy in play on the continent for dealing with terrorism.
First school Sunshine of Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital city.
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Due to its lack of international recognition and its limited financial capacity, Somaliland’s administration isn’t fully capable of supporting the education sector
Africa has tried for decades to develop robust intra-regional trade. Free trade agreement is the most recent effort
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Now that African countries have signed up for the continental free trade agreement, they must complete the institutional loop by jumpstarting the creation of the African Monetary Fund.
South African politician Julius Malema often attacks journalists.
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For democracy to work, the press has to be free.
Police in Camden, after a young man of Somali origin was stabbed in February 2018.
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Somali community leaders should help to foster links with their traditional culture.
A special team on board a Dutch mission ship carrying out manoeuvres for capturing pirates at sea.
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With the exception of Somali piracy, counter-measures have failed to stop transnational criminal networks from taking to the seas.
Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (second left) and Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta (second right).
EPA-EFE/Daniel Irungu
The legacy of colonialism’s unfinished business has now migrated to the Indian Ocean.
In 2017 US President Donald Trump intensified the use of drones in Somalia.
EPA/Lt-col Leslie Pratt
Drones are a tool to manage the threat of al-Shabaab, but there’s no way they’ll defeat the group entirely.
The Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique, provides fertile ground for extremism.
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Speculation and conspiracy theories abound about the Mozambican insurgents leaving a trail of violence in resource rich Cabo Delgado.