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...
(ERGO) – Aqbal Adawa Haji has been struggling to feed her nine children and relied in the central Somali city of Dusamareb, as displacement left her without any source of income. Now she’s collecting discarded metal from neighbourhoods across the town, earning $4 to $6 a day selling the scrap to local companies. It might not...
Mogadishu (WDN) –A fierce political battle for the position of Speaker of Somalia’s House of the People has officially begun following the disputed election of Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur “Adan Madobe” as President of South West State in Baidoa on Thursday. The contest comes at a time when the mandate of the current federal institutions...
Mogadishu (WDN) – Former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has once again returned to a familiar political refrain: blaming the opposition for resisting his government’s electoral and constitutional agenda while insisting that his administration remains committed to introducing one-person, one-vote elections and a multi-party political system. In an appearance on the Miisaan Podcast, the former President...
WASHINGTON -The Senegal Football Federation on Tuesday clarified the circumstances surrounding a viral social media video showing members of the Senegal national team undergoing security screening checks after arriving in the US for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The federation said in a statement that the footage has led to misunderstandings online, with some reports...