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Corporate media mostly mum as US strikes kill at least 20 in Somalia
Aug 25, 2022 12:54This is a completely under-the-radar news story, one that was curiously absent from the headlines in all of the major newspapers.
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America's exceptional amnesia
Apr 21, 2022 06:01Needless to say, the US government has killed many people in its military interventions abroad, most recently in West Asia and Africa.
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Washington is not telling the truth about US troops in Somalia
Nov 15, 2021 15:57The U.S. first dispatched commandos to Somalia shortly after 9/11 and has been conducting air strikes in the country since 2007. Journalists and human rights organizations have documented scores of civilian victims of these attacks.
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Is US military backtracking on airstrikes transparency?
Aug 16, 2021 14:12With the United States seemingly returning to waging an active air war in Somalia, AFRICOM’s recent press releases should raise concern that it may be backtracking on providing transparent reporting of the impact of its strikes.
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Sanders, Lee, and Murphy slam Biden administration's first drone strike in Somalia
Jul 27, 2021 09:20The Biden administration like its predecessors, has been accused of drastically undercounting civilian deaths in U.S. military operations.
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US role in destabilizing Yemen and Somalia could spark “famine of biblical proportions”
May 05, 2020 19:50The World Food Program is warning that Yemen and countries in the Horn of Africa – not coincidentally states that the US has been destabilizing for decades, could face mass starvation amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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A humanitarian crisis looms in Africa unless Africans act fast to stop the desert locust
Feb 17, 2020 15:35History is now in danger of repeating itself. But on a much bigger scale. The worst outbreak of desert locusts in decades is currently underway in the Horn of Africa. It is the biggest of its kind in 25 years for Ethiopia and Somalia — and the worst Kenya has seen for 70 years. The impacts of the outbreak in these countries are particularly acute as pastures and crops are being wiped out in communities that were already facing food shortages.