Dr Zakariya Weyrax When knowledge is divorced from action, society learns to tolerate the intolerable — and power is at its most absolute when it convinces a people that their own hesitation is wisdom. Right now, the talk is recognition. The performance is gratitude. And beneath it, unspoken but unmistakable, is unease. Across the Somali...
By Ali Haji Warsame The unilateral recognition of Somaliland by Israel on December 26 is not merely an isolated diplomatic incident. It highlights a broader trend where Somalia’s ongoing and unresolved internal divisions intersect perilously with regional ambitions and historical injustices. At its core, this episode exposes a fundamental truth: Somalia’s greatest vulnerability lies not...
By Abdisaid M. Ali Somalia’s social contract did not collapse overnight. It weakened gradually as constitutional restraint gave way to discretion and the rules meant to bind power in Mogadishu became negotiable. In fragile political orders, legitimacy rests less on ambition than on credible limits. Once those limits loosen, trust drains quickly and politics hardens,...
When manager Nasrulah Mohamed got to Nokomis Day Care Center at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, he saw destruction. Mohamed says security footage shows that between 3 and 6 a.m. Tuesday, someone broke through a brick wall in the back of the center. Nokomis Center administrators say the suspects crawled through the hole they made and...
By Abdelkarim A Haji Hassan Somalia’s crisis is not accidental, it is engineered. For nearly 35 years, the country has been consumed by war, conflict, and political instability while a narrow political elite endlessly circulates between power and opposition. This recycled leadership has delivered neither reform nor renewal, only the entrenchment of personal interests, locking...
By Isha Qarsoon Somalia is often described as having a government. It has a president, a prime minister, a cabinet, a parliament, and a constitution. On paper, it looks like a state. Yet for most Somalis, these institutions do not translate into governance. What exists in Mogadishu is a political center with weak administrative capacity...
(ERGO) – The lack of roads is having an economic and livelihood impact on hundreds of farmers living in areas under the Calmadow and Galgala mountains in the Sanaag and Bari regions. These people have no way to transport their crops harvested over the past three months. This problem was caused by landslides and landslides in...
W/Q Tilmaame Guutaale Ilmihii dhashay sannadkii 2001-dii, maanta waa afar iyo labaatan jir. Sharciga iyo dastuurka Maraykankaba qofkaasi waa codayn karaa doorosho walba, si kale, waa qof qaangaadh ah. Intiina xasuusata, rubuc qarni baa laga joogaa markii labo diyaaradood isku qarxiyeen xarunta ganacsiga adduunka (World Trade Center) ee magaalada New York, dalka Maraykanka. Waxa ay...
By Abdiqani Haji Abdi The rhetoric echoing from Villa Somalia today speaks of a democratic awakening. Senior officials describe a decisive break from the long-maligned “4.5” clan-based system toward the global gold standard of One Person, One Vote (OPOV). President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has framed the shift as inevitable, overdue, and historic—a necessary leap into...
(ERGO) – Waddo la’aan ayaa saamayn dhaqaale iyo mid nololeed ku haysa boqollaal beeraley ah oo ku nool deegaanno hoos taga buuraha Calmadow iyo Galgala ee gobollada Sanaag iyo Bari. Dadkan ayaa waayay meel ay mariyaan dalagyadii u soo go’ay saddexdii bil ee ugu danbaysay. Dhibaatadan waxaa horseeday jeex-jeex uu dhulku sameeyay iyo buuraha oo dhowr...