The Known Unknowns of the Secret US Drone War in Somalia | Black Agenda Report

The Known Unknowns of the Secret US Drone War in Somalia

This Is Hell

06 Mar 2019

🖨️ Print Article

US troops landed in oil-rich Somalia in 1992 and never really left. Over the years some have been replaced with drones and mercenary contractors, but Americans still prop up their version of a Somali government, headed by a US citizen whose writ doesn't go much beyond the capital. Obama bombed Somalia regularly, but under Trump the number of drone strikes have tripled, killing unknown numbers of Africans and terrorizing large swaths of the countryside. The US government doesn't even reveal which agency is conducting many of the bombing strikes, and next to no reporting on the long war in Somalia appears in the US press or broadcast media.

ThisIsHell host Chuck Mertz interviews Mogadishu based journalist Amanda Sperber. Amanda wrote the article "Inside the Secretive US Air Campaign In Somalia" for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/somalia-…et-air-campaign/

This interview was originally broadcasted by our friends at ThisISHell.com on Saturday February 16, 2019.

Somalia

drone warfare

More Stories

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Gaza Media Accountability Encampment
08 Aug 2025
The Gaza Media Accountability Encampment began in response to what organizers call the media’s “complicity in manufacturing consent for Israel’s crimes against humanity.” Activists are demanding an…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
"The Kenyan President is a Colonizer"
08 Aug 2025
Marcela Onyango is a Luo stand-up comedian and writer based in Brooklyn and Washington DC. She is the founder of Feel the News on TikTok, a columnist for Shado Mag and host of a monthly show, Feel…
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Zionist Shakedown
06 Aug 2025
Israel is a genocidaire apartheid state silencing critics around the world through threats, intimidation, lawfare, and accusations of antisemitism to prevent facing justice through international…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
ESSAY: Attica Then and Now! Acklyn R. Lynch, 1971
06 Aug 2025
“The men at Attica were prepared to die for the democratic principles not only enunciated in their Manifesto, but experienced in their revolt…”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Eritrea: We Won’t Kneel Down
06 Aug 2025
Eritrean Americans celebrated their 51st Eritrean Festival and their home country’s resolute independence from August 1 to 3, 2025.