By Abdelkarim A Hassan “I haven`t voted since 1964, I don`t want to get my judgment involved in what I do for a living” Jim Lehrer, PBS, News Hour. Background In recent years Somali journalism, Islam and Somali music have become the easiest areas to penetrate without any previous experience or training. In other words, anyone can claim to be...
April 25, 2025
Alternative Approaches to Pacifying Mogadishu
Alternative Approaches to Pacifying Mogadishu WardherNews Editorial January 07, 2010 For the last twenty years, Somalis have hoped, and so we expressed in these pages of WardheerNews, that each prospective year would be decidedly different. Although peace and development has sustainably improved with each passing year in the Horn of Africa region, things have gotten so sour for the Somali...
Abdullahi Yusuf’s Resignation and the Uncertain Prospects of the 2009
Abdullahi Yusuf’s Resignation and the Uncertain Prospects of the 2009 WardherNews Editorial December 31, 2008 Forget piracy in Somalia’s coast, and forget starvation and president Rayale’s obsessive cliché of “the further the South region sinks in conflict, the closer comes the recognition of Somaliland,” the events that took place in Baydhabo in the waning days of 2008 can’t be topped....
President Faroole of Puntland: Swimming against Powerful Tides
President Faroole of Puntland: Swimming against Powerful Tides WardherNews Editorial December 05 , 2009 With the closing of yet another tumultuous year, two thousand and nine, which, like its predecessors, ushered in chaos and confusion among Somalis, President Abdirahman Mohamed Faroole of Puntland is faced with three political challenges. While two of these challenges, namely the question of the disputed...
Regionalism and Alternative Forms of Governance: A Critique on Centralized, Top Down Approach to the Problem of Somalia
By Abdul Ahmed III It is often counter intuitive and very difficult for many scholars, policy makers, journalist and even politicians to explain or make sense of the collapse of the former Somalia. Many others fail to explain the prolonged socio-political conflict in the most homogenous nations in the African continent. However a close examination of Somali social groups reveals...
Sustaining Stability in Somaliland May Take Rayaale’s Quiting
Sustaining Stability in Somaliland May Take Rayaale’s Quiting WardherNews Editorial Sept 16 , 2009 Despite biblical proportions of destructions blanketing most of Somalia, the self-declared autonomous region of Somaliland has been a peaceful area for almost the better part of the last twenty years. This has been possible in Somaliland because of several intertwined social factors that may be in...
Somalia’s tragedy: Ahmedou Ould Abdallah’s search for personal fame and grandiose exit
By WadheerNews Since positive news about Somalia is rare and almost non existent, the unprecedented move by the weak transitional parliament on August 1st to reject a shoddy deal signed by the TFG and the republic of Kenya was welcoming news. This was with regard to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Transitional Federal Government of the Somali Republic (TFG)...
Eyl: Postcard from the Center of Somali Piracy
WardheerNews editorial– WardherNews special report Garowe, (WDN) – The Somali pirates that have wreaked havoc on the shipping lanes of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean in recent years have been widely covered in the international media. However, little is known about the basis on the coast of the Horn of Africa where Somali pirates organize their activities. The most important...
The Follies of the Somaliland Guurti should not Cloud the Search for Sustainable Peace
The Follies of the Somaliland Guurti should not Cloud the Search for Sustainable Peace WardherNews Editorial April 06 , 2009 By the time this editorial hit’s the print, Hargaysa and other major cities in Somaliland may have witnessed massive defiant demonstrations organized by the KULMIYE/QARAN opposition parties to protest the term extension the House of Elders, aka Guurti, just passed...
Piracy in Somalia: An Act of Terrorism or a Territorial Defense Mechanism?
WardheerNews Editorial Lately, the western media has particularly focused on stories of the Somalia piracy, which in effect has received more coverage than the often-talked clan conflicts, or the ever-growing muscle of the Youth fundamentalist group Al-Shabab that hostage the fate of the Somali people. Armed with speed boats and sophisticated light arms, Somali pirates, overtly supported by local and...