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Somalia’s Conflict: A Family Feud in a Homogeneous Nation Lacking Peace

Analysis: How Somalia’s “family feud” shows sameness alone can’t secure peace Somalia appears, on paper, like a country built for cohesion. Nearly everyone is ethnically Somali, speaks Somali and practices Sunni Islam. Yet three decades after the state collapsed in 1991, the country remains trapped in fractious, often intimate violence. The paradox is instructive far beyond the Horn of Africa: shared identity does not guarantee stability. When institutions fail and rules disappear, homogeneity can magnify rivalries instead…

Ilhan Omar should rethink her intensifying feud with Donald Trump

Opinion | Ilhan Omar Must Reassess Her Escalating War of Words with Donald Trump The clash between Rep. Ilhan Omar and President Donald Trump has entered a phase where the volume of rhetoric risks drowning out the lives at stake. With the White House reviving a hard-line immigration agenda and ending protections that stabilized Somali-American families for decades, the cost of political grandstanding is no longer theoretical. It is immediate, personal and potentially irreversible for tens of thousands in Minnesota and…