From Minnesota to the Red Sea: How Somalis became the front line of global politics, By Phillip van Niekerk

Premiumtimesng | 28-01-2026 01:36am |

Somalia’s civil war cannot be understood outside the prism of the Cold War, which exacerbated local problems born of clan rivalries and colonial borders that sliced Somali territory into five different countries. Donald Trump really doesn’t like Somalis. He has repeatedly called them “garbage” and says their country stinks. “We don’t want ’em in our

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