Qorsho, the first Somali American educator to receive the prestigious honor, was selected out of 134 nominees. The principal at Gideon Pond Elementary School in Burnsville, where Qorsho taught fifth grade the last two years, described her as a “game-changing educator.” By BECKY Z. DERNBACH Growing up in a small Ohio town post-9/11, Qorsho Hassan wished...
November 14, 2026
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Somalia expects to announce winners of first petroleum auction early 2021
Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Somalia expects to announce the winners of its first oil and gas licensing round early next year, as the country seeks petro dollars to help rebuild its struggling economy, a senior government oil official said on Wednesday. Battered by violence and an Islamist insurgency since clan warlords overthrew a...
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Djibouti: Detained reporter’s home searched, Facebook account hacked
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the methods used by the Djiboutian authorities to keep pressuring and intimidating a journalist held for the past three weeks, including searching his home and hacking into his Facebook account. A video filmed after the police searched Charmarke Saïd Darar’s home on 2 August shows the floor strewn with clothes and personal effects,...
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FARMAAJO’S LAST THROW OF THE DICE WHAT IS HIS ENDGAME?
by Aweys Omar Mohamoud, PhD In response to each big question of politics, one must surely reply ‘‘It depends.’’ Valid answers depend on the context in which the political processes under study occur. They also depend on the context in terms of understandings built into the questions, the evidence available for answering the questions, and...
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How a musician’s death unleashed violence and death in Ethiopia
160 people have died following the killing of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, leaving the ethnically and politically riven country more divided than ever Tom Gardner in Shashamane, Ziway and Adama The figure holding a gun stepped beside the car in which Haacaaluu Hundeessaa was sitting in Addis Ababa, and pulled the trigger. The cold-blooded killing on the night...
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Ethiopia makes progress on embattled reform: Official
Reforms secured free and fair elections, independent justiciary, human rights protection, press freedom, says official Seleshi Tessema ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Despite daunting challenges, the multi-faceted Ethiopian reform is destined to succeed in building a unified, a multi-cultural democratic society that would boost the country’s global reputation, a top official said. Nigusu Tilahun, the press...
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Duusamereeb- The battle over a realistic model for the coming elections
Dr. Aweys Omar Mohamoud, PhD In a game of ‘who blinks first!’ in Duusamareeb, the regional capital of Galmudug State, all five Federal Member States (FMS) leaders’ faces were set in determination for two weeks on one thing only: to tell President Farmaajo to get off his high horse and accept that indirect elections are...
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Family of slain Ethiopian singer mourns their ‘hero like a lion’
Dawit Endeshaw AMBO, Ethiopia (Reuters) – The white stone house with a paved floor stands out in the Ethiopian town of Ambo, a poor region where homes are mostly constructed of wood and mud. But the surrounding fence is incomplete – a constant reminder to the elderly inhabitants of their most famous son, political singer...
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Algeria: Arming Libya tribes will lead to ‘new Somalia’
Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune on Sunday revealed that his country has an initiative for a solution to the Libyan crisis that has been accepted by the UN and that may be submitted in coordination with Tunisia. This came in an interview with local media broadcast on state television, according to Anadolu Agency. Tebboune indicated that his country...
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Somalia: Internally displaced people surviving by “the grace of God” amidst COVID-19
Incessant fighting, recurrent droughts and floods, and the worst locust invasion in more than 25 years are forcing more people to flee their homes in Somalia, leading to severe overcrowding and an intensifying risk of COVID-19 among internally displaced people (IDP), Amnesty International said today. By 19 July, there were 3,119 confirmed cases of COVID-19...