A member of the General Service Unit in Kula Mawe, North Eastern Province during an operation against shiftas. PHOTO | COURTESY By ODHIAMBO LEVIN OPIYO Britain made a secret undertaking in 1967 to defend Kenya in case of an invasion by Somalia, declassified documents recently released from the Prime Minister’s office in London reveal. The...
February 6, 2025
Category: History
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DEFENDING SOMALIA: THEN AND NOW
By Adan Makina & Faisal Roble Editor’s note: About 96 years ago (December 20, 1920), Sayid Mohamed Abdulle Hassan lost his war of liberation against multiple imperialists, and succumbed to illness due to malaria and eventually died somewhere in Iimay. But his war did not end in vain. Almost 40 years after he died, Somalia...
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Sarbeeb: The Art of Oblique Communication in Somali Culture
Prof. Said S. Samatar Editor’s note: Today, November 24, 2016 marks the 12th anniversary of WardheerNews. To commemorate this occasion and one of the greatest scholars Somali speaking people have produced, the late Professor Said Samatar, contribution to WardheerNews, we would like to re publish Sarbeer: The Art of Oblique Communication in Somali Culture. Sarbeeb...
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Sahankii Richard Burton ee Bariga Afrika: Cutubkii 10-aad – Berbera iyo Agagaarkeeda
Tarjumo & Tifaftir Boodhari Warsame Odhaahda Tifaftirka: Waa Cutubkii 10-naad ee tarjumaadda buugga Sahankii Richard Burton, oo ka kooban 10 cutub, oo markii ugu horeysay la daabacay 1858. Buugga waxa tarjumay Boodhari Warsame. WardheerNews waxa ay aad ugu mahadnaqeysaa Boodhari oo xil aad u weyn iska saaray sidii uu ugu soo bandhigi lahaa bulshoweynta Soomaaliyeed buuggan taariikhiga...
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Supreme Revolutionary Council of Somalia: Harbinger of Social Injustice and Collapse of State Institutions
By Adan Makina Editor’s note: Oct 21 marks the 47th anniversary of the Coup D’état of 1969 that brought to power General Siad Barre ending the multiparty-based constitutional Democracy in Somalia. WardheerNews is republishing this piece on the occasion. Adan Makina takes us back to the events that took place during the authoritarian rule of...
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A LOOK AT SULTAN DEGHOW MUHUMED SAMBUL’S POLITICAL STRUGGLES
By Adan Makina Editor’s Note: WardheerNews proudly presents to its readers the historical struggles of the former leader of the now defunct Northern Frontier Districts Liberation Front (NFDLF) that fought for separation from the Republic of Kenya. Septuagenarian Sultan Deghow Muhumed Sambul threw in the towel in the early nineties after the collapse of Somalia’s...
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Sahankii Richard Burton ee Bariga Afrika: Tobankii Maalmood ee Harar
Tarjumo & Tifaftir Boodhari Warsame Cutubka 8 aad Tobankii Maalmood ee Harar Saacad barkeed markii aannu iridda ku sugaynnay ayuu waardiyihii soo laabtay oo noo sheegay in aan soo dhaafo albaabka. Markaa ayaannu inta dib u kooraysannay baqalaheennii ku soo hagay waddada wayn, dhabbe dhuuban oo taag sare kor ugu baxa, dhagaxyada ka soo taagtaaganina...
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AFRICAN PASSPORT
By Hassan Abtidon African Passport, Trade and People’s mobility are overdue to Africa modern history. Africa is moving in the direction of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for his Pan-African dream of solid African unity. African Union Treaty came into force after the 53 Heads of State in Lusaka the capital of Zambia signed it on Saturday...
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Redefining Racism by Reexamining Jeffersonian Democracy
By Ezrah Aharone As America celebrated 240-years of “democracy” on July 4, 2016, the longstanding tradition of hero-worshiping Thomas Jefferson continued. Meanwhile, as the slaughter of Black people continues in parallel tradition, America tends to disassociate the 18th-century racism and violence of its founders from 21st-century racism and violence of its followers. Let me however...
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IN MEMORIAM: AMBASSADOR GARAD
“ We belong to God, and unto Him we shall Return” By Ismail Ali Ismail Ambassador Mahammed Garad, scion of the Sultan family of Eastern Sanaag, passed away at his home in Maryland, U.S.A., on the night of 16 May 2016, having succumbed to a cancer he had been fighting for some time. He was...