Somalia

Africa’s jihadist groups are gaining territory and pressure, but they still lack the cohesion, legitimacy, and state collapse that made HTS’s seizure of Damascus possible.

Mogadishu's two-day firefight over a contested presidential term tells Jubaland, Puntland and Somaliland that federal authority ends at the gun barrel.

Israel's recent diplomatic recognition of Somaliland puts the full load of final sovereign legitimacy squarely on the political will of African capitals.

Under a Dakar mango tree, Koyo Kouoh's curatorial team heard fruit fall whenever an artist's name rang true, composing Venice's awaited future in minor keys.

With four tankers seized near Somalia in a fortnight, POTUS describes his own navy boarding foreign ships as piracy.