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Somalia has joined the EAC regional bloc. What happens next?

Observers say Somalia’s accession to the bloc comes with multiple opportunities but also multiple challenges.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

First the drought, then flood: Climate crisis compounds woes for Somalis

The shocks from a relentless climate crisis have upended the lives of millions in Somalia and the Horn of Africa region.

A woman collects flood water following heavy rains that have led the Juba river to overflow and flood large swathes of land in Dolow, Somalia

Somali content creators express discontent over TikTok, Telegram ban

Somali authorities banned the platform, which young Somalis say the platforms is a source of livelihood for them.

Abdulahi Ahmed uses his mobile phone to watch a video on social media app TikTok, outside his home in Waberi district of Mogadishu, Somalia

The AU mission in Somalia is ending. Can its military step in properly?

The Somali government believes its army will be ready for the 2024 withdrawal of AU forces, but others aren’t so sure.

African Union (AU) soldiers stand with their armored vehicles near a checkpoint on the eve of presidential elections in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Graft - vote-buying, fraud, intimidation - is the top concern in a nation that Transparency International now rates as the most corrupt in the world and Mogadishu is in lockdown because of the threat of violence by homegrown Islamic extremist group al-Shabab. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

‘Hungry for days’: Drought’s cruel toll on pregnant Somali women

Somalia is grappling with its worst drought in 40 years; it’s taking a toll on women’s and girls’ reproductive health.

Women and children in Somalia

In Somalia, al-Shabab’s courts win more converts

More Somalis are losing faith in the country’s slow judicial process and are taking their complaints to the armed group.

Armed Al-Shabaab fighters on patrol [File: Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP Photo]

From al-Shabab to the cabinet: Somalia’s move fuels debate

Mukhtar Robow, formerly a leader of the rebel group, has been appointed as a minister.

Former al Shabaab group co-founder and spokesperson Mukhtar Robow sits among colleagues after he was named as the minister in charge of religion by Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre in Mogadishu, Somalia August 2, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

UK’s first-ever survey details attacks on mosques, Islamic bodies

About 42 percent of surveyed mosques or Islamic bodies have been attacked in the last three years, a report says.

Regents Park Mosque in London

UK’s contaminated blood scandal inquiry: All you need to know

A blood treatment that infected 30,000 people with HIV and hepatitis C decades ago in the UK returns to the spotlight.

A donor gives blood at a National BlService centre in London

‘I’ll take my life’: UK refugees being deported to Rwanda despair

People at detention centres scheduled for deportation talk to Al Jazeera ahead of the first flight on June 14.

Protests near the centre where refugees are detained before they will be sent to Rwanda