The former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jendayi Frazer, speaks about the search for multi-lateral consensus and her country’s growing relations with Somaliland. Frazer spoke with Michelle Gavin‘s Reflections – a bimonthly series of conversations that invites former senior...
By Abdirizak Diis
After a long-delayed election, Somalia elected has new leadership with a vision of "Soomaali heshiis ah dunidana heshiis la ah," which translates to "Somalis in agreement within themselves and with the world." President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud contrasted...
An Advice to PRESIDENT HASSAN SHEIKH
by Isaac Muhammad
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, you're now the tenth president of Somalia and the first leader elected twice as head of state in the nation's history. After your election victory, you vowed to...
by Abdisalam Garjeex
May 15, 2022, became a day that would go down in infamy and as a supreme disgrace through our failure by electing Hassan Sheikh as Somalia’s second president. I was in Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia...
A visit to the Port of Berbera on the coast of Somaliland is certainly not for the faint hearted. It is blistering hot in summer with temperatures that regularly breach the forties, a journey made more challenging by the...
“The Republic of Somaliland has solely, that is devoid of international recognition and attendant benefits have proven that it’s Statehood and Independence REST ON UNSHAKABLE FOUNDATION.” Eng Deyr
Independence Day in Somaliland is an annual celebration held on 18 May...
A remarkable nation forged in strife
Somalia is not often associated with democracy, economic freedom and political stability. Therefore, unless you knew better, if I were to tell you that there is a large part of Somalia that not only espouses these...
By Sadiq Abdullahi Abdirahman
The Somali parliamentary committee tasked with preparing for the presidential election has rapidly set the date of May 15, 2022, as the day polls will be held. The combined legislators from both upper and lower houses...
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...
Salon.com ran a piece recently warning that the American right is “waging a stealth, neocolonial assault on Somalia.” The supposed “assault” is a growing campaign within the U.S. and elsewhere to recognize Somaliland’s independence from Somalia.
The author, Mohamoud Gaildon, included as...