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Abdi Latif Dahir

Lebanese doubt ceasefireas violence simmers

President Donald Trump’s announcement of a three-week extension to the ceasefire in Lebanon preserved a much-needed pause in a war that has killed nearly 2,500 people, displaced hundreds of...

Students on the run, schools taken by troops and a generation’s catastrophe

The young girls and boys, wearing colorful scarves, tattered shirts and flip-flops, ran across the dusty ground to form jagged lines and face the teachers at the start of the school day. The...

Darfur’s new generation, once full of promise, now suffers ‘Fire of War’

The news he had dreaded arrived a few minutes before midnight. For weeks, Bahaadin Adam had heard nothing from family members stuck in the fighting that convulsed Nyala, the capital of South Darfur...

Sudan's burgeoning art scene faces devastation as conflict displaces artists and destroys studios

On the morning Sudan’s rival military forces began fighting, Yasir Algrai was in his studio in the centre of the country’s capital, prepping for another day of work surrounded by paint colors and...

Tanzania’s first female president wants to bring her nation in from the cold

Shortly before midnight on a spring night last year, Samia Suluhu Hassan, then Tanzania’s first female vice-president, appeared on television to announce to a shocked nation that the president was...

War in Ukraine compounds hunger in East Africa

NAIROBI: First came the drought, drying up rivers and claiming the lives of two of Ruqiya Hussein Ahmed’s children as her family fled the barren countryside in southwest Somalia. Then came the war...

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