scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, October 26, 2025
TopicSomalia

Topic: Somalia

Red Sea attacks a rent-seeking gesture not war cry. Bombing Yemen won’t fix the crisis

For the moment, Israel's conflict in Gaza provides enough legitimacy to deploy substantial peacekeeping forces through the Red Sea, but the model is unsustainable.

Somalia govt says militant group al Shabaab’s co-founder Abdullahi Nadir dead

Somalia's military is supported by US forces and an African Union peacekeeping mission. It was not clear which international partners participated in the operation that killed Nadir.

India working with Somali govt to rescue 33 labourers held ‘hostage’ by company for 8 months

Activists say the Indian labourers, from UP, Bihar, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, are working in Mogadishu, and have been kept on a factory campus without pay or basic facilities.

On Camera

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.