Editor’s note: The Horn of Africa region is known for its civil war, terrorism and famine, it’s also home to some of the fastest growing economies in the world with large untapped natural resources. However, there is widespread unemployment, particularly among the youth, pervasive corruption and lack of transparency that are posing huge challenges, hindering...
March 11, 2025
1918 search results for: interview
Post
An Interview with Somali Historian Said Shidad
Editor’s Note: Said Shidad is an accomplished researcher, essayist, and Somali historian and has been a frequent contributor to WardheerNews . In this interview, Said gives us a glimpse of Somali pre-history, pinpoints significant historical sites within Somali territories that remain to be unearthed, touches on Somali ancestry, and the excavations that were carried out...
Post
An interview with HRW Africa Researcher on the report of sexual exploitation and abuse of Somali women and girls by AMISOM soldiers
Editor’s note: Human Rights Watch recently released a report on sexual exploitation and abuse of Somali women and underage girls by AMISOM soldiers. The tragedies encountered or experienced by Somali women and girls in the hands of Somalia’s warring factions, and unscrupulous individuals, is now added to these foreign troops, preying on the vulnerability of...
Post
Interview with Dr. Mohamud H. Egeh: Vice-Chancellor, Eelo University, Borama
Editors Note: A unique university having the hallmarks of an international institution of higher learning has emerged in the city of Borama located in the northwestern tip of Somaliland. Known as Eelo University, it prides to be located in the Awdal region of Somaliland-a region that takes its name from a medieval empire known as the Adal Sultanate and that has...
Post
Interview with Dr. Ali Said Faqi: Somali Ambassador to the Benelux and the European Union
Editor’s Note: Besides the array of news and analysis covered on a daily basis by WardheerNews, getting to know the views and ideas of Somali diplomats, distinguished figures, erudite scholars and academicians, political doyens, and individuals and organizations having the desire to make effective changes to the beleaguered, impoverished, and war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation...
Post
An Interview with Prof Lidwien Kapteijns (Ladan) on Somali Arts and Literature
Editor’s note: Prof Lidwien Kapteijns (Ladan) is not new to Somalia or Africa. Prof Lidwien teaches African and Middle Eastern history at Wellesley college and is the author of Clan Cleansing in Somalia (2013), Women’s Voices in a Man’s World (with Maryan Omar Ali, 1999) and numerous research papers that have contributed to the Somali...
Post
Interview: Women fund rebuilding of Garbaharey hospital
Garbahaarey, Somali diaspora women are funding the renovation of Gedo region’s largest hospital in Garbaharey to enable much needed medical services to be brought to local people. Radio Ergo’s Fatuma Maalim talked to Luul Mohamed Aden, the spokesperson of a group of diaspora women, who hail from the region, to ask further information. Luul: A...
Post
Addis standard’s exclusive interview with Ana Gomes
Ana Gomes is coordinator and spokesperson of the foreign affairs committee for her political group, the Social-Democrat. With 200 members the Social-Democrat is the second largest group within the European Parliament. For Ethiopia and Ethiopians though Ana Gomes is best remembered for her role as the leader of the EU election observers’ team during the...
Post
INTERVIEW-Sole opposition MP says Ethiopia bottling up strife
By Edmund Blair ADDIS ABABA, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Girma Seifu Maru, Ethiopia’s sole opposition politician in a 547-seat parliament, says the authorities risk provoking social unrest if they do not offer more political space to critical voices. The 47-year-old economist and consultant said his party, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), is pushing for...
Post
Interview with President of Somalia Hassan Sh. Mohamoud
Editor’s Note: WardheerNews had a rare opportunity to interview President Hassan Sh. Mohamoud, on the occasion of completing his first year in office. Abdelkarim A. Hassan has conducted the interview for WDN. —————————- WardheerNew: Mr. President, congratulation for the first anniversary. Many people argue that your administration has unearthed the scars of the past Somali...