Translated by WardheerNews from an article by Khalid Mohamoud of the prominent Middle East Arabic print publication: ‘Sharaq-al-Awsad’ on April 2, 2010. ___________________________ A collection of secret documents, obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat from the office of the president of the TFG, sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has revealed concerted efforts by the President to use an...
May 19, 2026
Category: Editorials
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Alternative Approaches to Pacifying Mogadishu
Alternative Approaches to Pacifying Mogadishu WardherNews Editorial January 07, 2010 For the last twenty years, Somalis have hoped, and so we expressed in these pages of WardheerNews, that each prospective year would be decidedly different. Although peace and development has sustainably improved with each passing year in the Horn of Africa region, things have gotten...
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Abdullahi Yusuf’s Resignation and the Uncertain Prospects of the 2009
Abdullahi Yusuf’s Resignation and the Uncertain Prospects of the 2009 WardherNews Editorial December 31, 2008 Forget piracy in Somalia’s coast, and forget starvation and president Rayale’s obsessive cliché of “the further the South region sinks in conflict, the closer comes the recognition of Somaliland,” the events that took place in Baydhabo in the waning days...
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Sustaining Stability in Somaliland May Take Rayaale’s Quiting
Sustaining Stability in Somaliland May Take Rayaale’s Quiting WardherNews Editorial Sept 16 , 2009 Despite biblical proportions of destructions blanketing most of Somalia, the self-declared autonomous region of Somaliland has been a peaceful area for almost the better part of the last twenty years. This has been possible in Somaliland because of several intertwined social...
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Somalia’s tragedy: Ahmedou Ould Abdallah’s search for personal fame and grandiose exit
By WadheerNews Since positive news about Somalia is rare and almost non existent, the unprecedented move by the weak transitional parliament on August 1st to reject a shoddy deal signed by the TFG and the republic of Kenya was welcoming news. This was with regard to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Transitional Federal Government...
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Eyl: Postcard from the Center of Somali Piracy
WardheerNews editorial– WardherNews special report Garowe, (WDN) – The Somali pirates that have wreaked havoc on the shipping lanes of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean in recent years have been widely covered in the international media. However, little is known about the basis on the coast of the Horn of Africa where Somali...
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The Follies of the Somaliland Guurti should not Cloud the Search for Sustainable Peace
The Follies of the Somaliland Guurti should not Cloud the Search for Sustainable Peace WardherNews Editorial April 06 , 2009 By the time this editorial hit’s the print, Hargaysa and other major cities in Somaliland may have witnessed massive defiant demonstrations organized by the KULMIYE/QARAN opposition parties to protest the term extension the House of...
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Piracy in Somalia: An Act of Terrorism or a Territorial Defense Mechanism?
WardheerNews Editorial Lately, the western media has particularly focused on stories of the Somalia piracy, which in effect has received more coverage than the often-talked clan conflicts, or the ever-growing muscle of the Youth fundamentalist group Al-Shabab that hostage the fate of the Somali people. Armed with speed boats and sophisticated light arms, Somali pirates,...
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Inspiring Elders and the Irrelevance of ONLF
WardheerNews Editorial April 11, 2006 Seeing the pictures and reading the headlines about the visit of the elders of the Somali National State, Ethiopia, to London, England, was all the more inspiring and uplifting. For those who did not follow the not-so short history of how the elders came to this point, the news sounded...
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Clan Conflicts and the choir of warmongers
WardheerNews Editorial February 3, 2006 We at WardheerNews express our disappointment to the elders and leaders of the Arab and Reer Isaaq sub-clans whose mediation efforts come to a halting crash. It would have been a positive conclusion to the fueling feud if a settlement were reached at San Dhoore village in the Somali Regional...