Mogadishu(WDN) — The United States is reassessing its engagement with Somalia as Washington signals that Somali leaders must take primary responsibility for resolving the country’s deepening political crisis, amid nearly a year of failed negotiations over elections, constitutional changes and the next political transition. Justin Davis, the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Mogadishu, is completing his...
Nairobi (WDN) — A potentially significant breakthrough has emerged from renewed efforts to resolve the political and security crisis in Somalia’s Southwest State, raising fresh hopes that a peaceful settlement could finally bring an end to the bloodshed and suffering in Baidoa. WardheerNews has learned that senior Somali lawmakers from Southwest State, led by former...
Mogadishu (WDN) — Somalia’s Federal Government and representatives of the political opposition are expected to sign a new political agreement in the coming days aimed at establishing a Democratic Transition Task Force (DTT), a body expected to play a role in shaping the country’s democratic transition and electoral process. In a post on X Mohamed...
By Dayib Sh. Ahmed In the aftermath of a devastating war that has claimed countless lives, destroyed homes, scattered families, and shattered dreams, the people of Somalia have risen once more not in despair, but in determination; not in resignation, but with a spirit of resistance against humiliation and continued suffering. For decades, Somalia has...
Mogadishu (WDN) — Somalia’s Federal Parliament has once again come under scrutiny after lawmakers voted down an opposition motion seeking to place the Doolow attack on the parliamentary agenda—a decision critics say exposes a legislature that has become more responsive to Villa Somalia than to the Somali public. The vote came during a tense parliamentary...
Baidoa (WDN) — The human cost of the latest fighting in Baidoa is becoming painfully clear inside the city’s hospitals, where dozens of wounded people are receiving treatment after heavy clashes erupted across the city and its outskirts on Thursday. The fighting pitted forces loyal to the Federal Government of Somalia and its allies in...
Garbaharey, GEDO (WDN) — In a striking display of public anger, residents of Garbaharey have taken to the streets to protest the attack that took place in Doolow, with demonstrators publicly burning the Turkish flag in a dramatic gesture that appeared to blame Turkey for the violence. Reports from Garbaharey, the administrative capital of Gedo...
By Abdulhakim A Sheik Somali society rebuilt itself after the state fell on trust, privacy and quiet mediation. A generation raised on the smartphones is now testing whether any of that still holds. Picture a house in Mogadishu, or Minneapolis, or Nairobi. A husband and wife are arguing — not violently, but badly, the way...
Geneva (WDN) — A new United Nations investigation has found that Sudan’s devastating war has expanded far beyond the country’s borders, with transnational networks operating across the United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Chad, Libya and Somalia allegedly facilitating the movement of fighters, weapons, military equipment, training and logistical support to forces involved in the conflict. The...
Denmark and four other European Union countries agreed Friday on a model for “return hubs” in non-EU nations and hope to begin sending migrants to the facilities as early as 2027, an official said Friday. The announcement, made after a one-day meeting in Copenhagen, is the latest development in an effort by EU states to...