By Abdiaziz Amalo
The Somali government has admitted that rations for the elite Somali soldiers trained by the United States have been diverted within a unit of its forces.
In a statement issued late Thursday, the government said it had conducted...
Dr. Gauri Narain Mathur
Towards the beginning of the year 2024, the Horn of Africa region witnessed a diplomatic stir as, on January 1st 2024, Ethiopia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a breakaway region of Somalia, Somaliland. The deal...
By Abdi Jama
In the dynamic political landscape of Somaliland, there is a resounding call for change as citizens grow increasingly disillusioned with the 13-year reign of the Kulmiye party. Over the past seven years, a leadership style reminiscent of...
The Ethiopian prime minister has repeatedly called Red Sea access an existential question for his country.
By Hakeem Alade Najimdeen
On 2 January 2024, Muse Bihi Abdi, President of Somaliland, a breakaway Somali territory, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...
Why is the current administration so stubbornly bent on propping up a sclerotic, untrustworthy regime in Somalia with little legitimacy and even less effectiveness?
by J. Peter Pham
Writing in this forum, Tibor P. Nagy, Jr. and Joshua Meservey made an eloquent...
By Ambassador Adam Jibril Muse
All autocratic politicians share one basic belief that they own the absolute truth on life, the rulers of Somalia today continue to behave accordingly, both Al-Itisam of Hasan Sheik Mohamoud and Al-Shabab live in on...
On January 1, 2024, a Memorandum of Understanding between Somaliland and Ethiopia was signed by H.E. President Muse Bihi Abdi of Somaliland and H.E. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia which has instigated regional, international, and global geopolitical contests....
In order to understand Somaliland, it helps to turn to the esteemed pan-Africanist scholar Ali Mazrui.
By Seifudein Adem
The esteemed pan-Africanist scholar Ali Mazrui has resurfaced in contemporary discourse as Ethiopia and Somaliland signed a pivotal memorandum of understanding in January. Mazrui’s insights are...
In a recent interview, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, expressed with some nostalgia the memory of the brotherhood that once linked the Italian fascist colonizers of the Mussolini era to the African people....
Doing so will bring about long-overdue historical justice, advance shared values and security interests, and promote regional stability and development.
Somalian-born congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s de facto admission that she’s an undeclared foreign agent, which she made last month while ranting...