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Sada Mire est une archéologue bien particulière. En effet, sa nationalité la rend unique, elle est somalienne, plus précisément de la partie autoproclamée indépendante de la Somalie, le Somaliland. Elle est la première femme somalienne archéologue. Aucune...

The only archaeologist of Somaliland As a 14-year-old Somali refugee, she came to Sweden. Now she works as an archaeologist in Somaliland. Sada Mire is the only archaeologist of Somaliland. "That often means choosing between doing scientific research or...

Sada Mire was 14 years old when she came to Malmö as a refugee from Somalia. Today she is the only archeologist of the old home country. Her goal is to dig the history of the crisis-stricken region. It is a project full of risks. Violence and political...

Eyewitness: Race to save African cave paintings Prehistoric art in the Gulf of Aden is in danger of being destroyed by developers and looters, warns a British archeologist A British archeologist whose team has discovered a spectacular array of prehistoric...

As a child she was forced to flee Somalia. Now Sada Mire is back, uncovering ancient rock art and ruined towns. She told Curtis Abraham what it’s like to be the only working archaeologist in the region, and why she believes cultural heritage remains a...

After Sada Mire returned to her homeland, she found archaeological treasures that hadn't been seen in thousands of years. When Sada Mire was just 12, her father, a Somali police official, was executed by the country’s brutal Barre regime, which saw him as...

PHYS.ORG - Interview with Sada Mire: 'Grotto galleries show early Somali life' A galaxy of colourful animal and human sketches adorn the caves in the rocky hills of this arid wilderness in northern Somalia, home to Africa's earliest known and most pristine...

Sada Mire est une archéologue bien particulière. En effet, sa nationalité la rend unique, elle est somalienne, plus précisément de la partie autoproclamée indépendante de la Somalie, le Somaliland. Elle est la première femme somalienne archéologue. Aucune...

Sada Mire is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist, art historian and presenter who currently serves as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archeology, Leiden University. She has previously headed up Somaliland’s Department of Antiquities, for the Ministry of...

From the cave paintings at Laas Geel to striking colonial architecture, the people of this self-declared East African nation have good reason to be proud. It is well worth a visit, even if tourism infrastructure is lacking. Rather surprisingly, as a...

Archaeologist and researcher at Leiden University, The Hague, 13 June 2016 Cultural heritage at risk: protecting cultural heritage in times of conflict Her Excellency Ms Irina Bokova, Director General of UNESCO Her Excellency Ms Silvia Fernandez de...

Somalia sits on the horn of Africa with the longest coastline on the continent’s mainland, while its capital city Mogadishu is known as the ‘white pearl’ of the Indian Ocean. In antiquity, Somalia is said to be “among the most probable locations of the...

When, as a child, she had to flee Somalia's civil war, she did not suppose that after many years she would return to discover monuments from thousands of years ago as the first and only archaeologist in this country. A woman to be next. Thanks to her,...

IF you're familiar with the title "the Horn of Africa" then it's very likely you've seen images or watched news reports of the famine and war which has beleaguered parts of the region and brought its people to their knees. But the region also has a rich...

Sada Mire ha 35 anni perché a 14 ha resistito appesa a una corda fuori da un camion che correva via da Mogadiscio, via dalla Somalia in guerra. Il resto, dopo, diventa quasi facile: da rifugiata in Svezia, studiare così tanto, lei e la sorella gemella, da...

As a child she was forced to flee Somalia. Now Sada Mire is back, uncovering ancient rock art and ruined towns. She toldCurtis Abraham what it’s like to be the only working archaeologist in the region, and why she believes cultural heritage remains a...

HARGEISA, Somaliland — Follow an unmarked dirt road to a dry riverbed in the scrubby, northwestern Somali plains and in the shadows, beneath the sandstone outcroppings, are remarkably well-preserved paintings.  They date back between five and 11,000 years...

LONDON (AlertNet) – Insurgency, anarchy, drought, pirates, hunger… Such woes are the mainstays of most reports about Somalia. But here are some things you might not know about the East African country. It is often said that Somalia is a lawless country but...

L’AFP ha pubblicato alcune bellissime immagini di Laas Gaal (o Laas Geel in somalo), lo splendido sito archeologico scoperto nel 2002 nella Somalia nord-occidentale, più precisalente nel Somaliland, un’area devastata dalla guerra che si proclama...

Known today for its bloody conflicts and instability, Somalia's little known history can be found in the colorful cave paintings of animals and humans discovered in 2002 by a French archaeology team. Laas Gaal, Somalia (also known as Laas Geel), just...

UK archaeologist finds cave paintings at 100 new African sites Scientist unearths 5,000-year-old rock art, including drawing of a mounted hunter, in Somaliland. Striking prehistoric rock art created up to 5,000 years ago has been discovered at almost 100...