By Ismail Ali Ismail (Geeldoon) On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 the Somali people lost one of their best and brightest advocates and senior diplomats in the person of Ambassador Abdullahi Said Osman, who passed away in the U.S, and in him I also lost a great friend of long standing – a friend whose memory...
November 14, 2026
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Saudi Women Are Getting Down to Business
By Elizabeth Dickinson JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Zakia Attar strides through the racks of colorful abayas, running her hands along the fabric. She checks that the garments are perfectly arranged to attract customers and then proudly introduces her salesclerk, a fellow Saudi woman. Behind the carefully arranged shelves and the cash register in a...
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Kenya troops ‘pull out of Somali el-Ade and Badhadhe bases’
BBC News – Kenyan forces have pulled out from two military bases in Somalia, including one attacked by militant Islamist group al-Shabab, residents have told the BBC. Al-Shabab fighters were spotted in the southern town of Badhadhe after the troops pulled out, residents added. Soldiers had also left el-Ade, where al-Shabab said it had killed...
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Somalia: A Rudder less Nation-State under President Hassan Sheikh
By Abdisalam Mohamud A state by definition is an independent sovereign state. Sovereignty entails supreme authority within one’s state. Hence, a sovereign state is free to shape its domestic policy, which reflects in turn its foreign policy that is directed towards its national interests. National interest, per se, includes many things that are essential to...
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Dispatches: Somalia Should Make Concrete Pledges at Rights Council
By Laetitia Bader Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim, a passionate Somali journalist, was sentenced in February 2013 to one year in prison. His crime? Interviewing a woman alleging rape by government security forces. The woman was also convicted of “tarnishing” state institutions. Both were eventually acquitted, but Abdiaziz fled into exile. This highly politicized case, just months...
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School Is Back in Session in Garissa, for Now
By Ariel Zirulnic MANDERA and GARISSA, Kenya — Teaching finally resumed last week at Garissa University, the northeast Kenyan college where al-Shabab killed 148 people last April. The attack by the al Qaeda-linked group, which over the last five years has morphed from a Somali insurgency into a regional terrorist threat, was the largest on Kenyan...
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In Ethiopia, anger over corruption and farmland development runs deep
Despite the government ending plans to build on Oromo land around the capital, clashes continue, as lack of transparency and maladministration fuel dissent Protesters block the road in Wolenkomi, in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. All photographs by William Davison By iam Davison in Wenchi Two years ago, on the edge of Chitu in Ethiopia’s unsettled...
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Al Jazeera America to Shut Down by April
By JOHN KOBLIN The cable news channel Al Jazeera America, which debuted in 2013 to great fanfare when it promised to cover American news soberly and seriously, will be shutting down by the end of April. The move was announced at a companywide meeting on Wednesday. In a memo to the staff, Al Jazeera America’s...
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Young Innovator from Somalia’s Puntland Builds Vehicles of Hope
By Faaris Adam Gulled Adan, the 13 year old innovator Gulled Adan Abdi, 13, was born in Buuhoodle region in Puntland, an autonomous state inside Somalia. He came from a deprived community. Gulled’s father died when Gulled was still a baby and as a result he had to care for two of his siblings. He is now in...
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Uganda: Intimidation of Media, Civic Groups
Kampala, (HRW) – Ugandan government and ruling party officials are intimidating and threatening journalists and activists in an effort to limit criticism of the government, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Uganda will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on February 18, 2016. The 48-page report, “‘Keep the People Uninformed’: Pre-Election Threats to...