Layla Mahmood 🎀🗡️

"I thought I was just being this really sexually empowered person and now when I look back at it, I was giving myself out so freely to these people, because I was in this impulsive hyperactive state" My feature on how #Neurodivergent women navigate #consent

The Observer has highlighted the story of Sarah Wangari, a victim of police brutality turned to an HRD. Her story is not isolated but one among many in different households in Nairobi's poor urban areas. Sarah chose to turn that pain into a strength for advocacy against EJK.

🙏🏽🙏🏽 @ObserverUK

@sholard_mancity I will email instead

@sholard_mancity Hi Sholla! I am writing a feature on this topic and would love to chat with you about this. I will DM now.

Mlikua mnajua kuwa some Somali women swallow 21 tablets in a day of Dexamethasone & clobetasol so that wakue beautiful with a round face and thick fast ? Peer pressure is killing our Somali women. Many of em now how early diabetes 🙇🏻Illahay ha xafido dumarka soomaaliyeed

K’Naan definitely didn’t intend for his music to be used for these purposes

@GuledWiliq @AyaanAbukarr I love Ayaan’s writing 🙏🏽 I was inspired by her essay on Somali TikTok that mentions Colonel Shuute. Can’t wait to read Hotel Mogadishu ✨✨

I want to thank @AyaanAbukarr for writing her Substack journal about General Shuute — Somalia’s Chief of Military Court, feared by Al-Shabaab as the “Angel of Death.” Shuute prosecutes the group relentlessly; they even killed his father for exposing their Mafia-style criminal empire. Ayaan, a Dutch-Somali historian and author of Hotel Mogadishu (a must-read), was the first to tell Shuute’s story — her work sparked wider international attention, leading outlets like @ObserverUK and journalist @layla_mood to document it further. For policymakers, researchers, and intelligence professionals, following General Shuute’s own Facebook page -where he openly publicizes Al-Shabaab’s trials, is a rare, invaluable window into the fight against terrorism.

@GuledWiliq @H_shuute Thank you very much! ✨✨

"Terrorist groups use social media to show power. We use it to show their real end: in a courtroom" A must-read, gripping & inspiring documentary by @layla_mood on General Shuute @H_shuute, the man Al-Shabaab fears most—nicknamed the Angel of Death. observer.co.uk/news/internati…

@Mustafe_Ahmad Thanks! ✨🙏🏽

Posting for peace: the Mogadishu judge taking on terrorism with TikTok Sharing court clips with his 1.5m followers has made Hassan Ali Nur Shuute Somalia’s leading influencer. bit.ly/4mLVnHw

Fascinating piece in yesterday's Observer about the way in which a young military judge is using Tik Tok to draw the Somali public into trials involving Al-Shabaab suspects. observer.co.uk/news/internati…

@michelawrong Thank you 🙏🏽✨

@HarunMaruf Thank you for sharing! Your book came up numerous times in my research 🙏🏽✨

Posting for peace: the Mogadishu judge taking on terrorists observer.co.uk/news/internati…

@Mohamed_Gabobe @cjwerleman @nickturse @MazMHussain @jeremyscahill @AJEnglish @AJStudies @BBCAfrica @j__osman @CAGEintl 🥺🥺🕊️🕊️🕊️

This week marks exactly 32 years since the “Bloody Monday Massacre” in #Somalia when the #US military bombed a “suspected rebel safe house” in #Mogadishu on July 12th 1993, killing over 70 civilians — consisting of mostly religious scholars, elders, women and young children.

No-one is more obsessed with the idea of Muslim women taking their clothes off as western liberal feminists.

@nomadintheblood I agree! Or decriminalisation at the least

“What is the impact of secret drinking in Somali border towns?” 🎙️Tune in for an insightful intergenerational conversation on the impact of alcohol smuggled from neighbouring Ethiopia where it is legal into Somalia where it is banned 🎙️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/afr…

Somali alcohol smuggler Guled Diriye has just returned from transporting contraband from the Ethiopian border. Diriye is exhausted after driving dangerous roads and negotiating armed checkpoints. He is breaking the law, but says he has no choice. bbc.in/4fd6ntP