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There was a women’s organization in a town on the Somaliland-Ethiopia border at which the leaders I interviewed championed both the tradition of female genital surgery (FGM/S) as a means of…
I went to Somaliland, the north western part of Somalia, back in November this year. Going across this arrid region, I witnessed the droughts that are now destroying a centuries-old way of life, that…
“I’m not going anywhere. I prefer to die in my house”, Abdilahi Ahmed Ali, a drought-affected herdsman in Somaliland
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The town of Balli Hiile lies about an hours drive…
Muhammed interrupted me by pounding the ground, laughing out loud and exchanging a few words with Seleban Yussuf , the village’s elder sitting next to him.