by Jacfar Jimcale
The World Bank (WB) is launching the Somali Electricity recovery Project (SERP) which will cost 150M USD and its worth mentioning that the money is not coming from WB account. It comes from Multi-partner Fund (MPF) account...
Some time in March this year, Scott Perry, a member of the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee submitted a proposal to the House of Representatives seeking recognition for Somaliland as an independent country.
Perry, from Pennsylvania, USA, submitted the proposal...
By Mohamed Baldho
Government of the people, by the people and for the people" (Lincoln, 1863). The word democracy comes from the Greek words "demos," meaning people, and "kratos" meaning power; so, democracy is the will and the power of...
By President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Somalia is at war with a cruel, global and morally bankrupt terrorist group which we cannot allow to live and operate in our country. If we do not root this evil and mindlessly violent group...
By Abdirahman Yusuf Ali
It is now four months and about two weeks since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was elected into office amid high expectations from Somalis across the divide for a responsive, selfless and productive government.
The year 2022 marks...
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...
By Mary Harper
Africa editor, BBC World Service News
The Somali people are known as "a nation of poets" and there is no greater poet of modern times than Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame, who has died in Hargeisa, the capital of the...
By Tibor Nagy
Americans like underdogs, especially when they are feisty, self-reliant, and stand up to bullies. I’ve just had the delight of visiting such a place: the self-declared, independent Republic of Somaliland – situated on one of the most...
Reviewed by: Mousse Abdi
This article was written by Mohamoud Ahmed Ali's friend Mr. Tyree, the director of the Institute of Education at New York University. Mr. Tyree collaborated with Mohamoud Ahmed Ali on a number of educational projects in...
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame Said, known as Hadraawi, in 2013. Screengrab/YouTube
By Mohamed Haji Ingiriis
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame Said, widely known by his childhood nickname Hadraawi, was one of the greatest Somali poets of all time. He was certainly the most famed...