Anja Shortland and Federico Varese on 07/06/2026

Somali piracy is back …

Fuelled by political turmoil, aid cuts and the Iran war.

A Anja Shortland and Federico Varese
Antony Sguazzin and Mathabiso Ralengau, Bloomberg on 06/06/2026

Secretive deals, aggressive demands are new US foreign aid tactics

For Lesotho, a nation of 2.4 million people with the unhappy distinction of having the world’s second-highest HIV rate and the fourth-highest tuberculosis rate, the loss of support threatened thousands of lives.

A Antony Sguazzin and Mathabiso Ralengau, Bloomberg