By Faisal A Roble For about forty years, I lived in America and comfortably adjusted to the culture of the two political parties. The Democratic Party has always coexisted with its adversarial Republican Party. Until recently, they competed and complemented each other. And that positively propelled what has come to be the “American democracy.” Although...
By Abdisaid M. Ali In recent months Somalis have again heard themselves spoken of with open contempt, in the crude language of Donald Trump and in tones that echo Churchill and other colonial officials who once described Africans as subjects to be ruled. The words change, but the posture does not. It treats Somalis as...
By Dayib Sh Ahmed In recent days, the Somali community in Minnesota has been thrust into the center of a vicious and unnecessary political storm. President Donald Trump has once again turned his attention toward Somali Minnesotans, deploying crude attacks rooted in stereotypes, exaggerations, and outright hostility. With every press conference clip, every inflammatory sentence,...
By Osman A Hassan The long arc of global conflict teaches a painful but consistent lesson: nations do not collapse solely because of their enemies. They collapse because they trust the wrong allies and foreign powers, intermediaries, donors, political brokers, and internal elites who profit from prolonged instability. The greatest strategic mistake a vulnerable nation...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. President Donald Trump has called Somali immigrants living in the United States “garbage” and wants them to leave, claiming without evidence that “they contribute nothing.” The crude language came Tuesday after a person familiar with the planning said federal authorities were preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota primarily focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the...
By Amelia Nierenberg and Hussein Mohamed. New York Times Hussein Mohamed reported from Mogadishu, Somalia Somalia’s leader said Wednesday that it was “better not to respond” a day after President Trump called Somali immigrants “garbage” during a xenophobic tirade. “We are not the only country that Trump insults,” Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre told an audience at an innovation...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities are preparing a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the planning. The move comes as President Donald Trump again on Tuesday escalated rhetoric about Minnesota’s sizable Somali community, saying he did not want immigrants from the...
By Isha Qarsoon Somalia’s public debates tend to focus on individuals and the daily turbulence around them. But behind these arguments, a more serious problem is developing. The country is drifting into a governance trap that will shape its future far more than any single president or cabinet. This trap is not the result of...
Hargeisa (WDN)- Tensions flared at Hargeisa Airport today when former Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi was reportedly denied entry to the facility while attempting to depart the country. The confrontation quickly escalated into an exchange of gunfire between airport security personnel and members of the security detail accompanying the former president. According to initial reports,...
By Dr. Adam I. OHirsi They were born into a country that had already vanished from their parents’ hands. The Somali Democratic Republic collapsed in 1991, and the idea of one meaningful and cherished shared home collapsed with it. Thirty-four years later, the state still hasn’t come back—not in any way that feels solid. In...