By Safi Abdi Words can not describe the anger and frustration I am feeling right now. I find it hard to understand or explain away the evil designs behind the ambushing and the slaying and wounding of innocent civilians in Teleex. I understand the number of dead has risen to nine, the number of wounded...
February 5, 2025
Category: Global News & Politics
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Somalia: The smiling president and the final showdown
By Abdul Ghelleh Twelve months ago, a largely unknown former NGO operative called Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, became the president of Somalia, elected by a group of MPs that was selected (not elected) by Somalia’s civil war corrupted traditional leaders. When his name was pronounced winner at the voting venue, he smiled for the cameras, all...
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Political Mishaps Should Have Consequences
By Ahmed M. Farah (Nurradin) Since the conflict between the Somali president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, alias Culusow, and the Prime Minister, Abdi Farah Shirdon, alias Saacid, came to the fore, in public, for all to see, Somalis – politicians, elders, civil society members and common folk – expressed derision and sense of loss towards both...
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Mr. President: Beware Of the Prime Minister’s Left Hook
By Shukri M. Geele The Prime Minister of Somalia, Abdi Farah Shirdon, announced on November 8, 2013 that the President of Somalia, Hassan Mohamud, had asked him to resign. He portrayed this request from the President as nothing more than a misreading of the Constitution on the President’s part. Since then, the hoopla surrounding the...
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Crisis in Somalia: High Noon in Mogadishu
By Ali Abdulle The confrontation at the top of the Somali government is moving into its third week with no sign of a resolution. The president is still waging a no holds barred assault to do a hatchet job on the political career of his one-time buddy, the prime minister. The falling out of the...
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2014 Puntland elections: Farole Must Go Come Hell or High Water
By Ahmed Y Ahmed Under President Farole’s administration, the Puntland security, economy, and territorial integrity have all suffered. President Farole’s autocratic rule and abuse of power in public resources has hindered progress and prosperity of the people of Puntland, and the time has come for him to be replaced. Economically, President Farole’s government lack of...
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Crossing Swords: Siad Barre and Professor Said S. Samatar
By Hassan M. Abukar “You have to know the past to understand the present.” Carl Sagan. It was either in 1984 or 1985 that Siad Barre’s regime was weakening. It was a period not far removed from Somalia’s war with Ethiopia in 1977/1978, a tragic miscalculation by President Barre. Perhaps the aftermath of that costly...
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Interview with President of Somalia Hassan Sh. Mohamoud
Editor’s Note: WardheerNews had a rare opportunity to interview President Hassan Sh. Mohamoud, on the occasion of completing his first year in office. Abdelkarim A. Hassan has conducted the interview for WDN. —————————- WardheerNew: Mr. President, congratulation for the first anniversary. Many people argue that your administration has unearthed the scars of the past Somali...
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Stolen Seas, Somali Piracy Debunked: An Interview with the filmmaker
By Yasmeen Maxamuud Stolen Seas is yet another “Pirate” documentary for a world that has become obsessed with Somali Piracy. The filmmaker follows the hijacking of the CEC Future; a Danish owned ship flying with a “Bahamas” flag (big companies rent flags from mostly poor countries to bypass legal restriction) that was hijacked while traveling...
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Why President Hassan’s effort to revive a ‘centralised government’ in Somalia is act in futility
Said Faadi For a variety of reasons, it is an uphill task to revive the collapsed state of Somalia. Yet, the current Federal Government of Somalia (SFG) stood the best prospect for restoring the failed political institutions of Somalia. President Hassan got a golden opportunity to pull this war-torn nation out of the black hole...