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"In September 2025, Feisal Mohammed Ali was arrested for possession and trading in two rhino horns worth USD 63,000." Read the latest #TheHornEdition at sahan.global/issues/the-hor… #IllegalWildlifeTrade #IvoryTraffickingAfrica #ElephantPoachingcrisis

"Ports Minister Abdulqadir Jama, colloquially known as ‘Jama Tik Tok,’ was declared the "winner" of parliamentary seat HOP#204 (Baidoa). Read the latest #TheSomaliWire at sahan.global/issues/the-som… #SouthWestStatepolitics #Baidoaelection

"The sparks from the Middle East's conflagration have set Ethiopia's laboured fuel industry ablaze, and the country is grinding to a halt." Read the latest #TheEthiopianCable at sahan.global/issues/the-eth… #EthiopiaFuelcrisis #MiddleEastWar

"Apathy pervades the Djiboutian population. Read the latest #TheHornEdition at sahan.global/issues/the-hor… #Djiboutipolitics #OmarGuelleh #HornOfAfricaGeopolitics

"The role of Turkish military support was marginal in the grand scheme of Laftagareen's removal, given the weight of the key Rahanweyne sub-clan's opposition to his presidency and federal firepower." Read the latest #TheSomaliWire at sahan.global/issues/the-som… #Turkey #Somalia

"Why have one mega-dam when you can have three more?" Read the most recent #TheEthiopianCable at sahan.global/issues/the-eth… #GERDEthiopia #AbiyAhmed #EthiopiaBlueNiledams #Nilewaterdisputes

"Villa Somalia has prevailed in Baidoa." Read the most recent #TheSomaliWire at sahan.global/issues/the-som… #SouthWestStatecrisis #Baidoaconflict #VillaSomaliapowerstruggle

"The deployment of Ali Dheere's son to a suicide mission raises another interesting debate as well-- the role of ideology within the extremist group's leadership." Read the latest #TheSomaliWire at sahan.global/issues/the-som… #AlShabaab #AliDheere #TerrorisminSomalia

"Today, as war has continued to ravage and metastasise across Sudan, few communities and children have been left untouched by the ruinous violence." Read the latest #TheHornEdition at sahan.global/issues/the-hor… #Dafurconflict #ChildSoldiers #RSFrecruitment #SudanCivilWar

"The Rahanweyne Resistance Army (RRA) did not emerge from a Shir (conference) in October 1995 to defend a government, nor to overthrow it." Read the latest #TheSomaliWire at sahan.global/issues/the-som… #RahanweyneResistanceArmy #Laftagareenleadership

"War has been averted in Tigray -- for now." Read the latest #TheEthiopianCable at sahan.global/issues/the-eth… #TigrayCantWait #Fanoinsurgency #AbiyAhmed

Tigray: A War Deferred or Avoided? "Losing ground in Amhara and Oromia may yet force Addis Ababa to reconsider its northern gamble, pulling back forces from Tigray to stabilise an increasingly frayed core" martinplaut.com/2026/03/24/tig…

Read the latest #TheSomaliWire at sahan.global/issues/the-som… #Baidoa #SouthWestState #HassanSheikhMohamud

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"The history of the contemporary Horn of Africa is littered with abandoned and abrogated peace agreements-- as well as a handful of successes." Read the latest #TheHornEdition at sahan.global/issues/the-hor… #TigrayConflict #Sudan #civilwar #SouthSudanpeaceagreement

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"The worm, it seems, has finally turned." Read the latest #TheSomaliWire at sahan.global/issues/the-som… #Laftagareen #SouthWestStatecrisis #VillaSomalia

Six general elections in Ethiopia have been held since the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) implemented its ethnic-federal system in 1995. Read the latest #TheEthiopianCable at sahan.global/issues/the-eth… #Ethiopiaelections2026 #AbiyAhmed #ProsperityParty

Last April, General Sheegow Ahmed Ali-- once the highest- ranking military officer hailing from the Somali Bantu-- died in ignominy in a Mogadishu hospital. Read the latest #TheSomaliwire on sahan.global/issues/the-som… #SomaliNationalArmy #Clanpolitics #GeneralSheegow

“The Horn of Africa's political fate has always been wired to external commercial interests, with its expansive eastern edge on the Red Sea serving as an aorta of trade for millennia.” Read the most recent #TheSomaliWire on sahan.global/issues/the-som… #RedSea #oilcrisis2026