Dr. Abukar Y. Warsame The documentary “The Somali Nomad Code” produced by Weird Earth has captured wide attention for its rich portrayal of nomadic heritage and the cultural tensions Somali migrants face in the Western world. It is beautifully produced, emotionally powerful, and rooted in an undeniable truth: Somali pastoral values do shape the diaspora...
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Nouhoun Sidibè was a herder, like his father and grandfather, and took pride in his identity as a pastoralist. That’s until the day armed men descended on his home in northern Burkina Faso and seized all his livestock. Within minutes on that day in 2020, the father of four lost everything. For...
By Dayib Sh Ahmed In recent days, the Somali community in Minnesota has been thrust into the center of a vicious and unnecessary political storm. President Donald Trump has once again turned his attention toward Somali Minnesotans, deploying crude attacks rooted in stereotypes, exaggerations, and outright hostility. With every press conference clip, every inflammatory sentence,...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities are preparing a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the planning. The move comes as President Donald Trump again on Tuesday escalated rhetoric about Minnesota’s sizable Somali community, saying he did not want immigrants from the...
By Isha Qarsoon Somalia’s public debates tend to focus on individuals and the daily turbulence around them. But behind these arguments, a more serious problem is developing. The country is drifting into a governance trap that will shape its future far more than any single president or cabinet. This trap is not the result of...
By Dr. Adam I. OHirsi They were born into a country that had already vanished from their parents’ hands. The Somali Democratic Republic collapsed in 1991, and the idea of one meaningful and cherished shared home collapsed with it. Thirty-four years later, the state still hasn’t come back—not in any way that feels solid. In...
By Eng Mohamed Ali Mirreh It was a quiet afternoon in August 2024 when my phone buzzed with a simple WhatsApp notification—yet that vibration carried the weight of half a century. A group had been created under the name “1971 Class – Amoud Secondary,” and I had been added. The initiator was none other than...
WardheerNews Editorial The recent stream of clan bravados that Mogadishu belongs to one clan and asking others to leave and go back to their home base is a brazen act of hate speech and a menace to nation-building. This recent outburst by Senator Haji Muse Sudi Yalaxow a former Mogadishu Warlord, which was targeted at...
By Bashir M. Sheikh Ali The East African Court of Justice issued an interim order directing the East African Legislative Assembly not to swear in Somalia’s nine nominated representatives. The order followed a legal challenge by Somali applicants who argue that the nomination process did not comply with Article 50 of the EAC Treaty. Because...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The first Group of 20 summit in Africa that ended Sunday broke new ground by putting the priorities of poor countries at the top of the bloc’s agenda. Host South Africa negotiated a summit declaration signed by some of the world’s richest and top emerging economies that agreed to give more global attention to issues that especially affect...