By Abdisalam Issa-Salwe Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Prime Minister, are you ready for the challenge? I have no doubt about your qualifications and abilities in being a good prime minister. I congratulate you for the new job. In the real sense, since late 1980, we did not have a ‘functioning’ Somali state. There cannot...
October 24, 2026
Category: opinion
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Out of sight out of mind:The Second Taleh Massacre
By Ali H Abdulla It is strange how two events with the same bloody outcome can garner different reactions from the world community. The first event took place in Nairobi and resulted in the massacre of 67 innocent civilians whose only guilt was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The second...
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AF SOOMAALIGA IYO TEKNOLOOJIYADA
W.Q. Cabdalla Xaaji Cusmaan Sannadkii 1972kii, markii la hirgeliyey qoraalka Af Soomaaliga, waxa suura galay in la diiwaan geliyo suugaanta iyo dhaqanka hodanka ah ee aynnu ku faanno, hawshaa oo ay iska xil saareen aqoonyahanno badan. Dhinaca kale, dawladdii Kacaanka ee dalka ka talinaysay, waxay meel marisay ereybixin badan oo loo aayey, hasayeeshee waxa laga...
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Kerry’s Coup from Mediator to Antagonist
By Nicola Nasser U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was scheduled to start his ninth trip of shuttle diplomacy between Palestinian and Israeli leaders on this December 11. However, the bridging “security arrangements,” which he proposed less than a week earlier on his last trip, have backfired and are now snowballing into a major crisis...
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MP’s assassination points at the President of Somalia
By Dahir Sheikh On December 6, 2013, Mohamed Warsame Mohamed (a.k.a. Faisal), who was a member of the Somali Federal Parliament was brutally assassinated in front of the presidential palace (Villa Somalia) in Mogadishu. Reports suggest that an explosive device was taped in his car which blasted shortly after leaving the Palace. Mr. Faisal dead minutes...
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Somalia’s unity at crossroads
By Jama sharmarke Somalia represents the worst kind of a fragmented modern state. In practical terms, the country is a welter of self-regulating tribal homelands over which the central authority cannot exercise jurisdiction. Its national unity is beset with unprecedented level of challenges in the definition and implementation of federalism and most importantly in the...
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Somalia: the Hope that is not yet on the Way
By Abdirahman Gutale & Daud Ed Osman “The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” (Martin Heidegger) Hope is fascinating thing and it brings solace to those who expect it, but lately we come to notice that not all hopes are equal. Some materialize, but others stay mere...
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Why would Federalism be preferable in Somalia?
By Abdulkadir Suleiman Abdirahman A. Warsame makes some very good points regarding Somalia’s contentious system of government in his most recent article posted on Hiiraan Online[i]. He accurately underlined that Federalism – as a type of Government won’t take root unchallenged for a country like Somalia that has been chaotic for decades as He further...
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Taxanaha Aadan Makina: Bar ama Baro:
W/Q Aadan Makiina ‘Aqoon la’aani waa iftiin la’aan’ waa halqabsi oo tilmaamaya faa’idadda ama muhiimada ay leedahay waxbarashadu. Tan iyo intii dawladii kacaanka laga eryay xukunka, Soomaaliya waxaa soomaray mugdi xagga tacliinta maadaama dugsyadii iyo ilihii waxbarasho burbureen iyadoo ummaddii noqotay wax debedaha uhayaama iyo wax ku tabaaleysan gudaha dalka. Tiro badan ayaa kunool xeryo...
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EU AND AFRICAN MIGRANTS: WHY THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE (FOR MIGRANTS)
By Marco Zoppi Last October has sadly recorded two1 shipwrecks in the Sicilian Channel which claimed the lives of at least 373 migrants that were trying to reach the shores of the Italian tiny island of Lampedusa. The death toll is even destined to grow, since some 180 migrants are still lost at sea. Lampedusa...