By Alexander Stafford
Perhaps the most important lesson we should learn from the brutal war in Ukraine is the value of free, democratic friends in difficult places. The UK has taken a leading role in supporting our brave friends in...
I have written this note as a tribute to our late President Mohamed Ibrahim Egal: 17 years ago, on May 03, 2002, the late President Egal passed away at a hospital in Pretoria, South Africa.Egal was my hero. He...
By Ali Abdi Hersi
There are five nation-states within the Somali nation, and their dream to reform a ‘Great Somalia’, under one flag, government and institution has deceased and will not be revived again.
In 1960, two Somali nation-states gained independence...
By Michael Rubin
Somaliland is an unlikely success. Somali dictator Siad Barre’s genocidal wrath destroyed more than 80 percent of Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital city, and leveled other towns. And yet, despite a lack of formal international recognition or external assistance,...
The subject of reconciliation between Somalia and Somaliland is complex in nature with long-standing historical deep-seated issues affecting politics and trust between both parties. These prevailing conditions cannot be solved by a stroke of a well-intended apology from the...
By Abdirizak Mursal Farah
Shabelle and Juba rivers are the only two perennial rivers in Somalia. Both rivers begin in the highlands of Ethiopia and then flow southeast into Somalia. River Shabelle is longer than Juba and flows through several...
Source of map: Nelson, Harold D. (Ed.) (1982). Somalia: A Country Study, p.15, Washington DC: American University, Foreign Area Studies; Library of Congress
Among other things, leaders of Somaliland base their claim for statehood that Somaliland was once British...
By Shukri Said
The coronavirus pandemic that has swept across the world since the beginning of 2020 has put all states to the test. Some reacted with positive results, limiting deaths and the rate of infections, others less so. Among the...
On May 31, 2021, Somaliland will hold the second legislative elections since 2005, to elect new MP’s. However, the current parochial, bias, divisive electoral process for electing legislators is highly flawed. Therefore, we need a constitutional amendment, or parliament...
The prime minister’s contradictory task will come against the hard realities of Farmaajo’s machination
In the world of disinformation, four “Ds” are important. You first “dismiss” reality and everything that does not suit your chosen narrative. Think of how Farmaajo...