By Hussien Mohamed Yusuf The recent Fifth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has indicated that climate change is real and the IGAD Sub region in the Greater Horn of Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world due to the high degree of vulnerability of the society and...
February 22, 2025
Tag: Somalia
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Federal Member States: Hard Times Hard Decisions
By Faisal A. Roble Basil Davidson, a British historian, and an Africanist, once wrote that England was a mere geographic expression when Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire was melting metal and gold (Basil Davidson, History of Africa). In the same token, at a time when neighboring African states are at their “take-off stage,” per...
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Extending Federal Membership to Northern Somalia is Long Overdue
By Osman Hassan Introduction. This article is on the pressing need to extend the federal system to northern Somalia and in particular to the unionist SSC regions which happen to be the only ones in the north crying for it. Their perspective on the federation, the central government and its member states and their relations...
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My way or the highway: Villa Somalia’s zero-sum politics is getting out of hand
By Abdullahi Samoow In the first three years of his rule, President Farmaajo has gone from “The Savior of Somalia” to a ruthless tyrant with no regard for the separation of powers and the democratic process, enshrined in the constitution he took the oath to protect. With the help of his narcissistic prime minister, they...
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Urgent action needed to stop Locust invasion in eastern Africa
By Obi Anyadike, The New Humanitarian Senior editor, Africa NAIROBI- A donor conference in Rome on Monday will be asked to pledge $70 million to tackle a plague of desert locusts critically threatening rural livelihoods in a region where tens of millions of people already face extreme hunger. Swarms of the insects are sweeping across eastern Ethiopia,...
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Hiding in the Grass: Fear and Confusion as Fighters Overran a U.S. Airfield
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt, Charlie Savage and Helene Cooper WASHINGTON — Armed with rifles and explosives, about a dozen Shabab fighters destroyed an American surveillance plane as it was taking off and ignited an hours long gunfight earlier this month on a sprawling military base in Kenya that houses United States troops. By the time the Shabab were done,...
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Farmajo Fights Separatism the Wrong Way
By Michael Rubin Many Somalis crave unity. In 1960, Somalis achieved it when the former British protectorate of Somaliland and Italy’s newly-freed Somaliland colony united to form what eventually became known as Somalia. Corruption, dictatorship and factional fighting eroded Somali solidarity, however. Against the backdrop of civil war and genocide against the Isaaq clan, Somaliland...
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The WORLD BANK Features in Villa Somalia’s Fraudulent Re-election Bid
By Hassan Keynan Somalia’s mercurial Finance Minister is at it again doing what he does best: peddling fiction and deception. Yesterday the good Dr. unveiled the $112 million Somali Urban Resilience Project (SURP). Flanked by the Federal Minister of Public Works and the Mayor of Mogadishu, Minister Beileh announced the official launching of the Project,...
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Cradled in the Horn: A Journey Home
By Faiza Jama Somalia was more than a trip about rediscovering my homeland. It was an intentional voyage to find a silver-lining to my lived reality as the child of struggling Somali immigrants. I wanted an escape from the fringe, from otherness – into the centre. So here I was trying to find my centre. ...
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WardheerNews person of the year: President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo
By WardheerNews WardheerNews named President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo as its person of the year for 2019 by reminding Somalis and friends of Somalia his dismal presidency and the setback he caused to the recovery of this fledgling federal entity. The choice is a deliberate means to increase the awareness of the Somalis and donor’s scrutiny...