Observed arrival · 2026-09-11
Ismail Abukar’s Somalia Field Record
A journalist’s research portfolio documenting Somalia’s prisons, military courts, elections, and Al-Shabaab’s bombing campaign.
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The portfolio describes a research process combining prison and military-court access, interviews with convicted Al-Shabaab operatives, named-source verification, eyewitness accounts, and official records. Its central dataset covers 566 individually documented bombings and suicide attacks in Somalia from September 2006 through 2026, then compares those entries with the Global Terrorism Database. The page also connects this work to reporting on two Somali electoral cycles and a four-year prison-system record.
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