Tag: Somalia

  • Nation & World

    Hodan Osman learns to ask new questions

    Child of Somali nomads, Harvard Kennedy School’s Hodan Osman, M.C./M.P.A. Mason Fellow, finds she is “passionate about state-building.”

    3 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    A onetime refugee aims high

    When she graduates from the Kennedy School with her master’s, onetime refugee Fadumo Dayib plans to run for president of Somalia, her homeland.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In the end, Somali famine preventable

    Despite historical links to natural disasters, the modern world’s global food web means that famines today are created more by man than by nature. Officials say a famine just ending in Somalia was caused by a failure of international early warning systems and the local Al-Shabaab militia blocking food aid.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School

    Last year, pirates off the coast of Somalia attacked 217 ships, hijacked 47, and snatched $60 million in ransom.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Revising Japan’s constitution: History, headlines, and prospects

    For months now, the pirates operating off the coast of Somalia have been making trouble for the world’s maritime shipping network. Now it appears their grappling hooks may have gotten entangled in another, very different web: the complicated question of revision of the Japanese constitution, specifically of Article 9, which contains the “renunciation of war”…

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Through a child’s eye

    At first glimpse, the photos don’t seem particularly revealing: a fish on a plate, a television, clean dishes on a rack, a toddler with outstretched arms, a lighted porch. But to Wendy Luttrell, these pictures — and 1,600 others like them in her data base at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) — open…

    6 minutes