Because of revitalized and sustained global efforts to improve child survival, the world has succeeded in reducing global child mortality from 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011. This success delighted some global child health leaders such as the director of the UNICEF, Anthony Lake. What is disheartening, however, is that the...
Ismail Haji Warsame ________________ Said Faadi’s recent open letter to Somalia’s incumbent President, H.E. Hassan Sh Mohamud, was quite articulate, relatively fair and consistent with current political developments in Somalia and its nascent, renewed foreign relations. I, however, take some critical exceptions to the credit Mr. Faadi has accorded to the President regarding the latter’s recent foreign trips and high profile symbolic receptions...
Aden Hassan ______________ Sareedo is the name of this poetic piece. Sareedo, is a noun so appealing in its pristine beauty, so simple in its originality. One might be tempted to ask: what is in a name? For Sareedo, there is a lot in it, and some more. This is a piece of poetry –...
By Faisal A. Roble ___________ More than 100 religious leaders and business executives, a doctor and other prominent residents of this Port city were hunted door to door and killed in three nights of terror that began on the eve of the Americans landing in Mogadishu…” Jane Perlez, New York Times, Dec. 1992 “Someone’s looter/killer...
WardheerNews Contributors and Editors Year 2012_Reflections
By Warsan Cismaan Saalax Jan. 03, 2013 It took Somalia almost four months from today to get a full government. Mr. Mahmoud, the president who took office on September 10, 2012 has become “preoccupied”, so much so that the new cabinet has education and health as sub departments of Social Services and not as independent...
Is the 2013 going to be the year “Somaliland” will finally bite the dust? By Mohamed F. Yabarag Dec 31, 2012 ____________________ Following the much-disputed November municipality elections that took place in the central and western parts of “Somaliland” enclave (voting did not take place in Buhodle and other areas of Khaatumo state of Somalia),...
By Abdinasir Amin Dec. 28, 2012 _____________________ I have been thinking about this particular article for a while and must admit that I’ve struggled with it not because it is difficult to write but because of the difficulty and the sensitivity of the subject matter. There is a good maxim in journalism; the cub reporter...
By Hassan M. Abukar In July of this year, a group of 22 Somali Salafi scholars met in Nairobi, Kenya, and issued a fatwa (a religious edict) that condemned a young Somali cleric based in Kenya named Shaikh Hassaan Hussein Adam. He is widely known as a spiritual supporter of Al-Shabab. The signatories and attendees...
WardheerNews The situation in southern Somalia is both promising and perilous. It is promising, on one hand, because Al-Shabab fighters have been retreating and losing ground. Today, they do not control Mogadishu, Afgooye, Hiiraan, and parts of Gedo. The exception is Kismayo, the only major city the group still controls. The Kenyan contingent of the...