By Khadar AfrahSunday June 7, 2026 Somalia has long told itself a consoling tale about its own failure: that its troubles are always authored elsewhere. Colonial mapmakers, Cold War blocs, hostile neighbours, opportunistic donors and a parade of foreign conferences are cast as the chief culprits. Abdirahman Roble Ulayare’s recent Hiiraan Online essay, “Foreign interference and the struggle for Somali sovereignty,” sits squarely in that tradition. It is earnest. It is also evasive. Ulayare is not wrong about everything.…

The humanitarian disaster is deepening in northern Ethiopia. The War Theater Since November, the province of Tigray has almost a million individuals in a state of famine. The TPLF occasion in Tigray attacked the close by Amhara area in an effort to blow up the humanitarian blockade. But this offensive has displaced greater than 150,000 individuals within the Amhara area, who're struggling to answer the…

"Congolence: the text of Noël Tshiani on Mboso's table", the daily Le Phare announces. According to this newspaper, the president of the National Assembly received this on Thursday, July 8 the nationality bill from the hands of Deputy Nsingi Pululu. This is a text developed by the 2018 presidential candidate Noël Tshiani and which will be discussed during the next parliamentary session, Le Phare explains.Under the headline…