Editor’s note: Nur Abdi grew up in Somaliland. When the civil war broke out in the 1980s, he left and settled in Canada where he was naturalized in 1994. The Somali Camel Boy (2019) is his debut novel. Dr. Helmi Ben Meriem, a Tunisian scholar of Somali studies interviewed Nur for his book, The Somali Camel Boy....
March 10, 2025
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AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR GENERAL DEEQ YUSUF ON THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED SOMALIA’S NATIONAL WOMEN’S CONFERENCE
Editor’s Note: In a recently concluded national conference on Somali Women and gender equality advocacy, WardheerNews got the chance to interview Mr. Deeq Yusuf, the Director General (DG) of the Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development Mr. Deeq Yusuf who is also a Human Rights Activists and an advocate of universal suffrage, emphasizes the...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH RETIRED EDUCATIONIST ALI A. BAKORDA
Editor’s Note: Educationist Ali Bakorda is well known in Kenya’s northern regions as well as in the national education fraternity. Hailing from a family that did not even own a hen to hatch an egg to sell in the market, the man many knew as “Abakurde”, encountered tough trials and tribulations until he finally climbed...
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An Interview with the Managing Director of HESPI Dr. Ali Issa Abdi
Editor’s note: WardheerNews is pleased to re-publish this in depth interview conducted on November 20, 2014, with Dr. Ali Issa Abdi, a presidential aspirant of Puntland’s 2019 election. The interview mainly focused on the Horn of Arica Economic and political affairs. Dr. Abdi’s announcement for the presidential election in Puntland has being creating a buzz...
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Hassan Jabhad: An Interview
Editor’s Note: Hassan Abdullahi Duale “Hassan Jabhad” is a Somali community activist, intellectual, and a former freedom fighter in the national liberation movement in Western Somalia, now the Somali State of Ethiopia. A graduate of Gahayr University and an economist by training, Duale worked for the Central Bank of Somalia in the Economic Research Department....
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Muslim woman who refused job interview handshake wins discrimination case
By Chris Harris For most job seekers a firm handshake is a vital and essential weapon in their interview armoury. But for one Muslim woman it looked to have been her downfall. The 24-year-old, who was going for a job as an interpreter in Uppsala, Sweden, refused to shake the hand of her male interviewer. The...
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A Rejoinder to Ali H. Warsame Interview
By Liban Ahmad Wardheernews interview with Ali Haji Warsame, former Puntland Presidential Candidate and former Minister of Education, was interesting. However, I will limit my discussion of the interview to Warsame’s views on the territorial dispute between Somaliland and Puntland. To back up his argument against the claim of Somaliland-based territories in ex-British Somaliland Warsame...
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Author tells of kidnapping by pirates he’d gone to interview
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Michael Scott Moore is walking a bit gingerly these days, but it has nothing to do with the 2½ years he spent imprisoned by Somali pirates, the beatings he suffered, his time spent in chains or the lousy food that caused him to lose 40 pounds. “I got thumped by a...
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Ali Haji Warsame: An Interview
Editor’s Note: Ali Haji Warsame is a veteran Somali public figure who was the Education Minister of Puntland between 2014 and 2015, a presidential candidate in the federal elections of 2016, a former Puntland presidential candidate in 2014, and a member of the Puntland Focus Group. He is a Certified Public Accountant (USA), and a...
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Juxa: An Interview
Editor’s Note: Abdi Farah Saeed “Juxa” is a veteran Somali journalist, writer, poet, statesman, and public figure who has held both senior-level state and federal positions. He was the Education Minister in Puntland from 2009 to 2014. Until January 2018, he was the Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Affairs, and Reconciliation. In addition to...