WardheerNews Editorial Somalia’s accession to the East African Community in 2023, is a significant step that brings economic growth and unlocks new trade opportunities for the Somali people, whose entrepreneurship presence is already visible across member states. Despite that, Somalia’s membership has faltered, and it could end up losing its status. So far, the nine-member...
WardheerNews editorial The recent racist barrage of insults by President Trump targeting Somalis and their lone member of the US Congress goes with impunity, a telltale sign of the resurgence of racial supremacy ideology at the highest office in the United States. Although painful both to Somalis and to well-meaning Americans, this battle between the...
WardheerNews Editorial The recent stream of clan bravados that Mogadishu belongs to one clan and asking others to leave and go back to their home base is a brazen act of hate speech and a menace to nation-building. This recent outburst by Senator Haji Muse Sudi Yalaxow a former Mogadishu Warlord, which was targeted at...
WardheerNews proudly endorses Minnesota State Senator Omar Fatah and New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidates for Minneapolis and New York City, respectively. Senator Fatah and Assemblyman Mamdani embody a new generation of bold, principled, and visionary leadership who are deeply committed to addressing the pressing challenges confronting communities: economic hardship, the...
WardheerNews editorial The expansion and designation of new districts, zones, and cities into the structure of the Somali Regional State reflect not a strategy for good governance, but a troubling pattern of power abuse and misguided public policy. A closer look at the list reveals that most of these new administrative units serve political agendas...
WardheerNews editorial “In it are Signs Manifest; (for example), the Station of Abraham; whoever enters it attains security; Pilgrimage thereto is a duty men owe to Allah,- those who can afford the journey; but if any deny faith, Allah stands not in need of any of His creatures” Surat Imran. Performing the Hajj, is...
WardheerNews Editorial Elected in May 2022, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud instilled hope in the people of Somalia with his guiding principle of “Somalia at peace with itself and with the world.” He is far from achieving any part of this principle after three years. On the contrary, the country has succumbed to anarchy, unprecedented corruption...
By WardheerNews Since the collapse of the Somali state in 1990, Somalia has endured decades of conflict and political instability, further complicated by increasing foreign involvement—with both constructive and detrimental consequences. Prior to the approval of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in October 2007, significant debate arose over the composition of the force, particularly...
By WardheerNews The Somali government, under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has escalated its war on free speech with a deliberate and aggressive campaign to silence all dissenting voices. On March 1, 2025, the crackdown claimed its first casualty when Ali Adan Mumin, a well-known political commentator and journalist, was arrested on baseless charges of “threatening...
By WardheerNews Editorial “In it are Signs Manifest; (for example), the Station of Abraham; whoever enters it attains security; Pilgrimage thereto is a duty men owe to Allah,- those who can afford the journey; but if any deny faith, Allah stands not in need of any of His creatures” Surat Imran. Performing the Hajj, is...