By Hussien Mohamed Yusuf This year, I had the privilege of attending for the first time in Garowe the Annual Peace Conference organized by the Puntland Development and Research Center (PDRC), which focused on the theme “Climate Change, Peace, and Security.” The theme could not have been more timely, given Somalia’s heightened vulnerability to climate...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A crackdown on cybercrime coordinated by Interpol has led to the arrests across 14 African countries of 260 people suspected in online romance and extortion scams, the organization announced Friday. The operation took place in July and August and focused on scams in which perpetrators build online romantic relationships to extract...
(ERGO) – More than 100 families living in 10 displacement camps on the outskirts of Baidoa are successfully cultivating small gardens inside the camps, giving them food, income, and a better life. Each family works on a plot of land 30-50 square metres in size, planting vegetables that are ready to harvest within three months. The...
By Isha Qarsoon Somalia’s streets are restless again. Opposition leaders are calling on young people to fill them, to raise their voices against the president, and to press for change. The temptation for youth to answer that call is strong. They are the majority of the population, often unemployed, often disillusioned, and always yearning for...
By Mohamed Gabobe, Al Jazeera Growing up in a nomadic family in central Somalia’s Galgaduud region, Luul Dahir Mohamed, like many girls in her Bedouin community, never got the opportunity to go to school. But as she grew up, married and had two children – Mohamed and Mariam – she dreamed of a better life for...
Reuters – As several of Israel’s Western allies recognise a Palestinian state, Israel has accelerated plans for settlements that it hopes will make the two-state solution impossible. Home to 2.7 million Palestinians, the Israeli-occupied West Bank has long been at the heart of plans for a future nation existing alongside Israel. The model is known...
(ERGO) – Pastoralists in central Somalia’s Mudug region, who were on the brink of giving up on livestock due to devastating drought, have regained hope since joining a milk trading cooperative that keeps camels on urban-based ranches. One struggling herder, 50-year-old Saleyman Yasin Nur, saw 170 goats and 41 camels die from lack of pasture and...
By Isha Qarsoon When President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud stood before cameras in September 2025 and declared that it was a crime for citizens to receive services without a national identity card, he was not simply making a speech about state-building. He was crossing the thin line between policy and law. His words have already reverberated...
Hundreds of families who fled devastating floods in Ilmo-adeer village, in Puntland’s Garowe district, in April are camping on higher ground outside the village without enough food, clean water or proper shelter. No aid has reached them since the floods swept away their homes, shops, farmland and livestock, leaving them destitute. Many are now burdened...
(ERGO) – When her parents separated earlier this year, 23-year-old Laki Abdirahman Mohamed became the sole provider for her family in Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital, taking responsibility for her eight younger siblings. Laki was forced to drop out in her second year of secondary education when her father stopped supporting the family. To keep her household afloat,...