By Gabriel Gatehouse BBC News, Mogadishu At the thriving seaport in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, the aroma of lemons drowns out the smell of ship’s fuel. The dried fruits, packed into hundreds of sacks, are being offloaded from trucks and hoisted by crane on to a cargo vessel for export. The ship will eventually make its...
Massive reduction in pirate attacks on ships put down to greater co-operation, use of armed guards and harsh jail terms Associated Press The fight against Somali pirates has been so effective that they have not been able to mount a successful hijacking in nearly a year, the chair of the global group trying to combat...
Without going into the details of Somalia’s political discourse, primarily ethnic Somalis reside in the horn of Africa. And in the late 19th century, they were divided into five parts as a result of the Berlin Conference where European powers began the Scramble for Africa. Two of those divisions, Somaliland (northern part) colonized by British...
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WardheerNews Editorial In lieu of our annual review of the year’s past happenings, we share with our readers the following report card. Comprised of two interrelated evaluations, one for the President and the other for the sitting Prime Minister is a high level review of the problems and prospects associated with these two leaders. In ...
Translated by WardheerNews from an article by Khalid Mohamoud of the prominent Middle East Arabic print publication: ‘Sharaq-al-Awsad’ on April 2, 2010. ___________________________ A collection of secret documents, obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat from the office of the president of the TFG, sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has revealed concerted efforts by the President to use an...
By Abdelkarim A Hassan “I haven`t voted since 1964, I don`t want to get my judgment involved in what I do for a living” Jim Lehrer, PBS, News Hour. Background In recent years Somali journalism, Islam and Somali music have become the easiest areas to penetrate without any previous experience or training. In other words,...
By Paul Salopek; Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent JIJIGA, Ethiopia – The gray-faced young man lying in bed number 15 of the run-down local hospital wasn’t much of a talker. In truth, few people are these days in Jijiga, a desert town whose tense streets are patrolled by swarms of Ethiopian police. But Nur Omar Ali,...