For the past several years, a small group of scientists has warned that sometime early this century, the rate of global warming — which has remained largely steady for decades — might accelerate. Temperatures could rise higher, faster. The drumbeat of weather disasters may become more insistent. And now, after what is poised to be the hottest year in...
By Samuel Bogale The Ethiopian Customs Commission said it is struggling with the growing sophistication and capacity of drug smugglers who use Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. Ethiopia is becoming among one of the emerging transit hubs for smugglers. Of around 156 drug seizures of outgoing drugs in Brazil, 64 were planned to arrive in...
Somalia has qualified to a continental championship for the first time ever in its history, with their junior side earning a debut slot for the TotalEnergies Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations. Somalia’s young Ocean Stars progressed to the tourney in Algeria after winning the CECAFA regional qualifiers, where they beat South Sudan 3-1 in the...
Reviewed by: Adan Makina Author: Dr. Georgi Kapchits Publisher: Hill Press Editor’s Note: WardheerNews, the most scholarly and journalistic digitized online magazine in the Horn of Africa wishes to share with its readers a review of the recently published book Isha Cumar ka lulata/The Knocked-Out Eye of the Hyena: Somali Folk Tales by Author Georgi...
By CARA ANNA The humanitarian situation in Tigray, which faces the world’s worst famine crisis in a decade, is “extremely concerning,” the U.N. said after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke Thursday by phone. Abiy also said basic services to Tigray including electricity and communications “will resume swiftly,” the U.N. said....
To: President of the Federal Government of Somalia H.E. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo To: Special Representative of the UN. Secretary-General for Somalia Amb. James SwanCC: International Communities July 1, 2020It has been thirty years since the first Manifesto was released and published in May 1990, at a time when Somalia was on the cusp of disintegration...
By Faisal Roble The Pains of losing National Heritage The destruction of Mogadishu is a quaint, if not a whimsical, narrative of the demise of thousands of architecturally significant resources, some dating back to the founding era of the City during Muslim renaissance. Many of the resources that are gutted down or burned to the...
Tarjumo & Tifaftir Boodhari Warsame Hordhac Akristeyaasha sharfanoow, waxa hortiinna yaal ee aan idin la wadaagayaa waa iskudayga tarjumid buug caan ah oo qoraa caan ahi ka qoray socdaal sahan ahaa oo uu sannadkii 1854tii ku maray inta u dhexaysa Berbera ilaa Harar, isaga oo waagaa xagga Badda Cas (Cadan) uga soo tallaabay carriga Soomaaliyeed....
By Faisal Roble On the eve of October 19, 2015, a young Somali woman called me from Toronto, Canada. Still winding down from my daily commute, I reluctantly answered the phone and inquired who the caller was? “You don’t know me, Faisal, but I am a big fan of yours,” said the voice of a...
Editor’s Note: Peaking into the rich WDN archives full of ten years of rare collection of historical pieces, news, commentary, opinion as well as cultural and poetry analysis and writing from across the globe, we come upon a jewel, a rarity, a genius piece of writings, honest and true and free of bias. Indeed, it could...