The Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu where a 30-hour Al-Shabaab siege left 21 people dead in August 2022. Hassan Elmi/AFP via Getty Images By Daisy Muibu In response to external – and at times internal – pressure, Al-Shabaab’s insurgency in Somalia has evolved...
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...
Over the past 32 years, Somali elites, politicians, educators, elders, and the public at large were seeking to find a stable Somalia that is at peace with itself. All attempts have failed to deliver a tangible and lasting solution....
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...
On behalf of Somaliland Strategic advisory group (SL-SAG) we strongly reject the statement of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of Somalia. He stated that “we (Somalia) will not accept Somaliland's independence.” MESSAGE TO HASSAN SHEIKH MAHAMUD, PRESIDENT OF SOMALIA: HERE ARE...
Somalis and foreign partners hailed the peaceful transfer of power between the elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and the outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo on May 23, 2022 following the conclusion of the most corrupt drawn-out parliamentary election which...
On the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the beginning of the Somali Revolution, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention wishes to remember the genocide committed towards the Isaaq clan during the Somali Civil War. By Edwin Haroldson During the 1980s,...
The Somali business community in East Africa is looking to explore trade opportunities at the first-ever business summit between the two countries in Kampala. Corporates and the business community from the region will be showcasing their products and services in...
SOMALILAND REPUBLIC LOCATION Somaliland is located in the Horn of Africa. It lies between the 08°00′ – 11°30′ parallel North of the Equator (Latitudes) and between 42°30′ – 49°00′ Meridian East of Greenwich (Longitudes). It is bordered by the Red...
By Abukar Arman In countries such as the U.S., there is an unwritten theory in a police investigation that assumes whenever a neighborhood robbery occurs, it was done by someone who not only had the motive to commit that crime...