By Liban A. Ahmad
In January 2022, many Somalis will have reflected on the thirty-first anniversary of the state collapse of 1991. The piecemeal governance transformation that Somalia has undergone since 2000, when the first transitional administration was formed after...
By Ibrahim Hassan Gagale
In the Forum of UN Human Rights Commission held recently in Nairobi in December 2021, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo of Somalia openly supported the genocide that Abiy Ahmed committed against his people, particularly against Tigray people, by...
Fighting erupted in Bosaso Tuesday morning following a clash between forces allied to President Abdullahi Deni and a section of the Puntland Security Forces.
Sources in the coastal city said the forces allied to Deni fired at positions held by...
Somalia’s opposition caucus appears to have lost ground on stalling the country’s controversial elections after the Prime Minister urged the organisers to move on with the polls.
The group, known as the Council of Presidential Candidates (CPC) had been calling...
Dr. Mohamud M Uluso
Somalia is a blessed and beautiful country that has all the potential of becoming a peaceful, democratic, and prosperous one. Unfortunately, despite two decades of international and national efforts to build a democratic state necessary to...
The Republic of Turkey’s involvement in sub-Saharan Africa, in general, and Somalia, in particular, marks one of the most exciting and widely misunderstood geopolitical and strategic events of the twenty-first century. Turkey is now considered a resident power in...
By Abdi Ali
Friday - December 17, 2021
Rooble sees personal incentives as more important than saving his country. It is why he is turning a dangerous crisis into a deadly one.
In a few days, and for the umpteenth time, Somalia...
BOSASO, Somalia, December 13, 2021-Jafar had two wishes. The first was to see his family again. He couldn't remember when he left Ethiopia; perhaps eight months ago, maybe a year.
Financial problems in the teenager's hometown convinced him that reaching...
Friday December 10, 2021
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, once considered a fair leader by the opposition, is now on the receiving end of the wrath of the opposition and other political leaders.
Tables turned
Recently re-elected Senator Muse Sudi Yalahow...
By Abdullahi M Arale
To all intent and purposes, 4.5 formula gives equal quota to the four “major” clans, and a half-point to a cluster of “minority” clans in Somalia. However, according to a spokesperson for Arta Peace Conference in...