New UN report says Somalia-based radicals operate off lucrative, illegal trade in charcoal, one of Africa’s main source of cheap energy. By Ryan Lenora Brown Khalil Senosi/AP NAIROBI, KENYA — Every year, hundreds of boats leave Somali ports bound for the Gulf states, packed full of contraband goods whose profits line the coffers of the Somalia-based extremist group Al...
October 23, 2026
Category: Global News & Politics
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I love Kagame more than my president -Somalia ambassador
By staff writer newsdesk@greatlakesvoice.com Kigali, Rwanda- Somalia`s envoy to Rwanda has expressed his love of President Paul Kagame saying “I wish he was Somalia’s President.” Cabdullahi Sheikh Maxamed, speaks more of Kagame than the country and the President he represents. Ambassador Cabdullahi told Great Lakes Voice in an exclusive interview at his offices in Kigali...
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The Somali Ambassador to Rwanda: “I Love Kagame.”
By Hassan M. Abukar Recently, Somalia’s ambassador to Rwanda, Abdullahi Sheikh Mohamed, made a public confession. The envoy, in an interview with the Great Lakes Voice, said he loves Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame more than he does his own boss, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. Abdullahi wishes Kagame were Somalia’s president. Why does the ambassador love...
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Massachusetts mayor demands State Department stop sending refugees to his city
AP- A Massachusetts mayor is calling for an end to refugee resettlement in his city, saying Somali families are putting pressure on already strained services in Springfield, a onetime industrial center where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line. Mayor Domenic Sarno is the latest mayor to decry refugee resettlement, joining...
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A Threat to the Existence of Somalis in the Horn of Africa?
By Abdul-Aziz Mohammed For eons, the Somalis inhabited the Horn of Africa in seclusion. On one side, Somalis were protected from people-to-people invasions by the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea; and, on the other side, a harsh semi-desert which forbade conquering. Also, the few batches of fertile lands, along the two rivers in the...
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Luck of the Somalis
By Prof Said S. Samatar A Somali-related incident recently has aviators and officials of the sky gasping in astonishment. The officials were bowled over by the riveting story of a Somali stow-away who sneaked undetected into the wheel receptacle of a jetliner that took off from San Jose (California) airport for a seven-hour flight to...
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President Hassan’s fading Political Footprint
By Faisal Roble President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud of Somalia and his government have been lately mired in diplomatic nightmares. The latest bellow was dealt when the United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs, John Kerry, summoned the leaders of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda on May 1, 2014 and sidelined President Hassan. Leaders of these three countries...
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Al-Shabab’s governor – one man and his iPad
Hamza Mohamed Al Jazeera Gadgets are becoming as ubiquitous as AK-47s among leaders of armed group in Somalia. On a hot dry Saturday afternoon, as I waited for clearance to visit an al-Shabab area in Bulo Mareer in Somalia, my phone rang. It was a contact saying there was a gathering I would want to attend....
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Mogadishu’s Meltdown and MIA Prime Minister
By Faisal A. Roble Last night at about 3 AM, one odd spooky call from Nairobi wakes me up. “Is this Faisal Roble,” the voice on the other end of the call said. “Who is it?” I enquired. “You don’t know me mudane Roble, but my name is Ibrahim,” just like an incognito detective would...
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Where is Somalia’s QAZI?
By Abdi Farah Laqan In August 1920, in the aftermath of the 1st World War, the victorious allied nations met in Sevres, just outside Paris, to sign a treaty that dictated the partition of Anatolia (present day Turkey), which had been the seat of the defeated Othman empire. To make things worse, large chunks of...