Boris Johnson’s ex-adviser loses Somaliland libel case

Boris Johnson’s ex-adviser loses Somaliland libel case

When a remote east African city was being shelled by Somaliland soldiers three years ago, a German academic became an unlikely messenger for the beleaguered inhabitants of Las Anod. Dr Markus Hoehne, an anthropologist then at Leipzig University, spoke Somali and had previously spent time in Las Anod researching for his doctorate in the early 2000s. As the city’s hospital came under attack, his local sources provided a daily stream of information…