National commission for dialogue and reconciliation for the Federal Government of Somalia and Somaliland
By Mohamed Obsiye, Ph.D.
Sunday, April 5, 2020
In July 2019 Somalia’s president his excellency Mohamed Abdillahi “Farmaajo” set up a commission to revive talks with Somaliland. His...
President Bihi of Somaliland faced a heated backlash after an accidental encounter of President Farmajo of Somalia in Addis Ababa Ethiopia a few months back according to his speech in the Parliament. After accusations and outcry, President Bihi’s argument...
There is a Somali proverb which says “Aanu wada hadalno wa aanu heshiino”, when translated means; initiating dialogue between opposing sides will finally end in peace.
This is an apt description of mediation in peacebuilding; voluntary acts of facilitation by...
Capitalizing on the Nile impasse, reversing Abiy Ahmed’s ‘One Somalia’ policy, and into the orbit of Taiwan and the U.S.
In 2020, Somaliland’s internationally and regionally isolated status has dramatically changed with the establishment of new diplomatic engagements. These new...
by Avv. Abdiwhid Abdullahi Warsame
I caught wind of the unfortunate passing of former Somali President Ali Mahdi Mohamed on the 9th of March 2021 due to COVID-19 complications in Nairobi, Kenya. Seeing as though we all have a limited...
The autonomous state of Somaliland held elections on May 31st which yielded a surprise defeat for President Musa Bihi Abdi’s Kulmiye party. In the context of Somalia, of which Somaliland is technically a Federal Member State (although don’t say...
Somalia is currently at a crossroads, and the likelihood of civil strife cannot be discounted.
Somalia’s president, Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmaajo,” is mainly to blame. His constitutional mandate ended in February 2021, and the current presidential election is delayed indefinitely. The...
Once more the region is haunted by the conjectures of famine. The absence of rainfall, severe climate changes, conflicts and out-of-touch political leadership are the main driving factors.
By Khadra Yasien Ahmed
It’s a pity that people are dying of hunger...
In their long repetitive speeches to MPs in their bid to win the keys to Villa Somalia, both Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and Hassan Ali Kheyre told stories of their nationalism and bogus successes to an unimpressed audience. Farmajo and...
By Hussein Adan Igeh (Deyr),
Somalia, (often taken as the prime example of a failed state) has for more than three decades embodied as the deficiencies of statelessness. The successive presidents of Somalia had time and again failed to create...