Editor’s Note: Libraries serve as community cultural centers, preserve historic artifacts, oral histories, and a place where students and individuals gather to study, research and explore. Despite the increased traction in the digital age and the perceived obsolescence, libraries still remain and play a key role as learning and cultural centers. Thus, WardheerNews.com is pleased...
By Warscapes Speaking before members of the international press gathered in Mogadishu on January 29, 2015, Philippe Lazzarini, United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, called on the international community to act in order to prevent a repeat of the famine of 2011 in Somalia. “About 731,000 Somalis face acute food insecurity, the vast majority internally displaced people, while an...
By WardheerNews Editor’s note: March 2, 2015 marks the day that a good friend of WardheerNews, Mr. Bob Montgomery, the Executive Director of the IRC in San Diego retires, after 38 years of service and dedication. Mr. Bob shared on these pages, many insights on refugee issues, dissecting the gamut from coming to America to...
By Roobdoon Forum As is known, in mid 1970s, Saudi Arabia had the ambition of regime change in Mogadishu, as an antidote to the Soviet (USSR) influence and communism/ socialism represented by Siyaad Barre. Considering themselves as an ally and partner in spreading of “democracy”, the Saudis requested from the United States to diminish the...
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By Brittany Vickers EBONY The current images of Somalia are those of a country ravaged by a 22-year dictatorship and perpetual civil war. Yet through 12 books and countless essays centered on Somalia, author Nuruddin Farah has refuted those images of his homeland and solidified his place as one of Africa’s leading literary voices. EBONY...
Editor’s note: The Horn of Africa region is known for its civil war, terrorism and famine, it’s also home to some of the fastest growing economies in the world with large untapped natural resources. However, there is widespread unemployment, particularly among the youth, pervasive corruption and lack of transparency that are posing huge challenges, hindering...
Editor’s Note: Said Shidad is an accomplished researcher, essayist, and Somali historian and has been a frequent contributor to WardheerNews . In this interview, Said gives us a glimpse of Somali pre-history, pinpoints significant historical sites within Somali territories that remain to be unearthed, touches on Somali ancestry, and the excavations that were carried out...
Editor’s note: Human Rights Watch recently released a report on sexual exploitation and abuse of Somali women and underage girls by AMISOM soldiers. The tragedies encountered or experienced by Somali women and girls in the hands of Somalia’s warring factions, and unscrupulous individuals, is now added to these foreign troops, preying on the vulnerability of...
Editors Note: A unique university having the hallmarks of an international institution of higher learning has emerged in the city of Borama located in the northwestern tip of Somaliland. Known as Eelo University, it prides to be located in the Awdal region of Somaliland-a region that takes its name from a medieval empire known as the Adal Sultanate and that has...
Editor’s Note: Besides the array of news and analysis covered on a daily basis by WardheerNews, getting to know the views and ideas of Somali diplomats, distinguished figures, erudite scholars and academicians, political doyens, and individuals and organizations having the desire to make effective changes to the beleaguered, impoverished, and war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation...