By Abdiaziz Ali Mumtaz Ahmed Jeh was a four-year old Somali girl and daughter of Fathima Ahmed and Ahmed Jeh who lived in Gabagabo which is under Tuli-Guled District Administration and is almost about 16 miles away from Jigjiga, the capital city of Somali Region, Ethiopia. According to a person who visited the place and...
October 20, 2026
Category: Youth – Generation Next
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Coronavirus puts four million girls at risk of child marriage
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Four million girls are at risk of child marriage in the next two years because of the new coronavirus pandemic, a global charity said on Friday, as campaigners warned that the crisis could undo decades of work to end the practice. Deepening poverty caused by the loss of livelihoods is...
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Learning in a pandemic, when ‘online school’ is the village chalkboard
LAGOS (Reuters) – With her school shut because of the coronavirus, Tolu Alagba kneels as she copies down class notes from a communal village chalkboard, the closest thing to online lessons on an island with no electricity, a boat ride from Nigeria’s megacity Lagos. Like much of the world, Nigeria ordered schools shut in late...
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Cradled in the Horn: A Journey Home
By Faiza Jama Somalia was more than a trip about rediscovering my homeland. It was an intentional voyage to find a silver-lining to my lived reality as the child of struggling Somali immigrants. I wanted an escape from the fringe, from otherness – into the centre. So here I was trying to find my centre. ...
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Suggestions for improving the higher education status in Somalia
By Ahmed Mohamud Osman and Cigaal Yassin Summary Education is one of the key areas that receive a top priority in the national policy of any country. This is because education reflects the culture, language, values, and identity of a nation. It is believed that the degree of development and quality of higher education resonate...
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Educating the next generation: lessons from the story of the boy and the king
By Seid Ali There is a famous hadith narrating the story of a boy and a king recorded by Imam Ahmed. Quranic scholars link this story with the six verses of the 85th surah of Quran (Sura Al Buruuj) and commonly use it to show a counterintuitive view of Islam on the meaning of SUCCESS....
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The Devil Male Lives in Somalia: Justice for Little Caa’isha ILyas Raped in Galkacyo
By Yasmeen Maxamuud Women in Somalia have had enough. A young 12 year old girl has been raped, killed and placed her mutilated, desecrated body in front of her family’s door this week. The tragedy of Caa’isha Ilyas is not an isolated incident. Young girls are snatched off the streets and raped; women of all...
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Youth: Meditations on them in Mogadishu
By Abdi Latif Ega The youth, a very serious group of young folks, overly mature for the age. They have faithfully or naively bought into the “good will” of the elders. Namely, the so called leadership. During the recent elections, I saw them as neither capable of envisioning themselves as part of the political process...
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United States Supports Somali Girls’ Transformation through Education
Mogadishu, Somalia – Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new partnership with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) to improve access to quality education for Somali young women and girls. The United States is contributing $5 million to DFID’s already existing $33.7 million Girls’ Education Challenge – Transition (GEC-T) program, a global...
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DAUNTING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT NEEDS URGENT SOLUTION
By Abdirahman A Issa The Somali youth face a daunting challenge in getting employment in their country. According to a UN report, 70% of the population in Somalia is under 30 years old and the youth unemployment rate is approximately 67%, which is the highest in the world. Every year, thousands of youth graduate from...