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Accuracy comes before speed. We name our sources wherever we can, we link to primary documents, and we say plainly when something is unconfirmed.

We follow AP style with additions for regional terminology. Datelines give the city and country. Currency figures give the local amount and the US dollar equivalent on first reference.

Bylines and reporter safety. Reporters are named on their work by default, because naming builds accountability and trust. But reporting from Mogadishu and parts of the Horn carries real physical risk, so any reporter may publish under initials or a desk byline, either for a single story or as a standing arrangement. When a story carries a protected byline, that protection applies to every language version of it and to our structured data, so a reporter shielded in one edition is never named in another. We would rather lose a small amount of credit than expose someone to harm.

Syndicated and third party material. Some articles are republished from outlets that license their work for reuse, and those carry the original author, the source and the licence. We never republish another outlet's work without a licence that permits it.

Artificial intelligence. We do not publish machine generated articles, and we do not publish machine translations without a fluent human editor reviewing them.

Corrections. See the corrections policy.