by Bashir M. Sheikh-Ali
In my paper on Federalism and Somalia, I discussed how Somali cultural norms, the current state of different regions/member states, and clannism exasperate Somalis’ abilities to create a complex government system based on federalism. I suggested that creating...
A severely malnourished two-year-old girl is fed via a tube in Banadir Maternity and Children Hospital in Mogadishu
The United Nations has predicted that 350,000 children in Somalia could die from hunger by the end of the summer.
Somalia is one...
The government of the Republic of Somaliland has described it as unfortunate and an expression of the Somali government’s hostility towards the people and the government of Somaliland a step was taken today.
A statement issued today by the Ministry...
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...
Somali ambassador to Kenya Mohamud Ahmed Nur, popularly known as Tarsan, stormed out of a meeting convened by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta with foreign ambassadors on Tuesday to protest Somaliland’s participation.
After showing up for the meeting, Tarsan saw representatives...
Tuesday June 7, 2022
This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF’s Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Rania Dagash – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais...
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...
Newly-elected Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (L) and former president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in Mogadishu on May 16, 2022. Baseless rumours of a military coup spread online following his election ( AFP / HASAN ALI ELMI
By Gaelle Faure
A video...
President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, in his first term, arrives for a meeting with then-British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street in London, February 4, 2013
This Sunday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made history as the first...