BY UNSOM Interviewer: Hello sir, welcome and thank you for agreeing to do this interview. What is the role of the UN in the electoral process? SRSG: The UN’s role is to support a Somali owned and Somali managed electoral process. Our job is to provide technical support and advice, but very much to respond...
March 10, 2025
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An Interview with MP Mariam Arif Ghassim
By WardheerNews Editor’s note: Mariam Arif Ghassim is the Chair of the Constitutional Oversight and Review Committee in the Federal Parliament of Somalia. An attorney by training, she spent close to two decades in Mogadishu after the collapse of Siad Barre’s regime. Ms. Ghassim has a keen eye for all things “Mogadishu”: from the daily...
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An Interview with Jonathan Star the Headmaster, Founder, and Managing Director of Abaarso school of science and technology
By WardheerNews Editor’s note:The recent visit to Abaarso School of Science and Technology in Somaliland by the CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper for a 60 minute special assignment, has created a renewed interest of the school’s accomplishment as well as a controversy on the status of Somaliland. WardheerNews would like to re post an interview we...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH KENYAN-SOMALI PROFESSIONAL PILOT AND RETIRED ARMY MAJOR MOHAMUD AHMED ISMAIL
By WardheerNews Editor’s Note: WardheerNews brings to its readers an in-depth interview with Mohamud Ahmed Ismail, a distinguished Kenyan-Somali professional pilot and a former retired Major of the Kenya Army. Mr. Mohamud talks about growing up in a nomadic culture in North Eastern Kenya, his professional life as a pilot and the aviation industry in...
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Want me to punch you?’ says Mugabe at TV interviewer’s retirement question
Zimbabwe’s president offers to punch journalist ‘to the floor’ as a reminder that he is still the leader despite his 92 years Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe Photograph: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters “Do you want me to punch you to the floor to realise I am still there?” So said Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, 92, to a TV...
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An Interview with Amb. Abdillahi Said Osman
By WardheerNews Editor’s Note: Death is reality faced by everyone who lives as Allah told us in the Quran” Every soul will taste death” Surat El Imran. In commemoration of the passing of Ambassador Abdillahi Said Osman on January 27, 2016, WardheerNews would like to re post an in-depth interview we conducted with Ambassador Osman.on...
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Interview: Somali President hails China’s support for reconstruction
By Christine Lagat OHANNESBURG, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud has commended China for extending financial and technical support to accelerate the reconstruction of the war torn country. During an exclusive interview with Xinhua on Saturday evening in Johannesburg, Mohamoud noted that China has remained a solid bilateral partner to Somalia. “The reopening of Chinese Embassy...
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An Interview with Alex De Waal: “Under UN rules, a country should not normally dispatch troops on a peacekeeping mission into a neighbouring country”
By Ahmed Hirsi A brief biography: Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at The Fletcher School. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarship and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in...
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An Interview with Cristina (Ubax) Ali Farah, the Author of the Novels – Madre Piccola (Little Mother) and Il Comandante del Fiume (The Commander of the River)
By WardheerNews Editor’s Note: Cristina ( Ubax) Ali Farah is a rising star among the emerging generation of Somali novelist. She is the author of several books including Madre Piccola (Little Mother). Christina’s novels and poetry have been published in numerous magazines such as Nuovi Argomenti, Quaderni del 900, Pagine, Sagarana, El Ghibli, Caffè, Crocevia,...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH KENYAN-SOMALI POLITICIAN ABDIRAHIM FARAH
By WardheerNews Editor’s Note: To better understand the state of affairs of Kenya Somali inhabited regions , particularly Garissa county since the adaption of County Governance System, where each county is managed by an elected local official, WardheerNews is pleased to bring to you an exclusive interview with Abdirahim Farah, a former Parliamentary aspirant for...