Mogadishu (WDN) – An emotional encounter between National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) Director Mahad Mohamed Salad and a young boy has captured public attention, with those present describing the moment as a powerful display of compassion and humanity. According to accounts shared by witnesses, the child approached Mahad Salad and told him that his...
Garowe (WDN) – Friday prayers across Puntland’s capital, Garowe, became a platform for calls to safeguard the region’s security and political stability as tensions continue to mount over allegations that Somalia’s Federal Government is seeking to undermine Puntland through military deployments and weapons transfers. Imams and religious scholars used their weekly sermons to urge residents...
Mogadishu (WDN) – The sentencing of Sadiyo Macalin Ali Hassan, popularly known as Sadiyo Bajaj, has ignited a fierce national outcry in Somalia over freedom of expression, political dissent, and the limits of state authority. A court in Mogadishu has sentenced the social media activist to three years in prison. Sadiyo’s conviction is a troubling...
By Dayib Sh Ahmed The damage inflicted on Somalia’s fragile state-building project by entrenched political networks is so enormous and wide-ranging that it is hard to fully grasp. It runs the gamut from the hollowing out of public institutions to the erosion of core diplomatic customs, transforming sovereign statecraft into a vehicle for private extraction....
Laascaanood/Adhicadeeye, (WDN) – A devastating outbreak of clan violence in the Adhicadeeye area of Somalia’s Northeast- Sool region has left more than 20 people dead and dozens wounded, according to local sources, in one of the deadliest inter-clan confrontations witnessed in the region this year. The fighting, which erupted between two clans (Dhulbahante/Jaamac Siyaad and...
Jowhar (WDN) — Al-Shabaab militants have intensified their tax collection operations in communities commuting between Balacd and Jowhar, the capital of Hirshabelle State, exploiting seasonal flooding and deteriorating road conditions to reassert their presence in areas that government forces have recently claimed to control. The development highlights a troubling reality facing Somalia: while political leaders...
Mogadishu (WDN) — Fresh violence in the town of Jalalaqsi in Somalia’s Hiiraan region between rival clans left multiple people dead and wounded, while entire neighborhoods were reduced to ashes in a conflict that has already displaced large numbers of civilians. The fighting, which erupted west of Jalalaqsi, has exposed the devastating human cost of...
By Farah Aw-Osman Sometimes I ask myself a painful question: how did a people with one language, one religion, one culture, and one ethnicity end up becoming one of the longest collapsed states in the world? The truth is, Somalia did not collapse in one day, and it did not collapse because of one clan...
Mogadishu (WDN) — Somalia’s opposition coalition has reportedly presented the international community with a new electoral framework that could dramatically reshape the country’s political landscape and potentially provide a way out of the deepening constitutional and electoral crisis. The opposition’s electoral proposal, initially reported by WardheerNews, has now been formally unveiled and officially confirmed. According...
Kigali (WDN) – Rwanda has received another group of vulnerable asylum seekers evacuated from Libya, through the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM), an initiative panned to offer a renewed opportunity to hundreds of people who had become trapped in one of the world’s most dangerous migration corridors. The latest group, consisting of 173 asylum seekers, arrived...