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koyamani

Progress and ret­ro­gres­sion in So­ma­lia

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In May 2015, U.S. Sec­re­tary of State John Kerry be­came the first per­son of his of­fice ever to visit So­ma­lia. Al­though it was an unan­nounced and very brief stop—he spent just over three hours in the coun­try—the trip in­di­cated that there have been real im­proveme... More »


His­tory learned # 3 : The Great China Pro­ject

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Sharia Law un­der the UIC Hard­line el­e­ments of the UIC have made ma­jor im­pinge­ments on civil lib­er­ties, pub­lic ex­pres­sion and en­ter­tain­ment al­ready, al­though we must be care­ful – the UIC’s fed­er­al­ist-clan struc­ture makes it hard to draw con­clu­sions from ex­am­ple... More »

The blame game

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UN­TIL the night of June 15, Mpeke­toni was not a house­hold name in Kenya. It ap­pears only on some maps as an ad­min­is­tra­tive sec­tion of Lamu County, but in the past week it has been de­scribed as a town com­plete with po­lice sta­tion and branches of the coun­try’s t... More »