By Michael Rubin
Hargeisa- Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, AFRICOM commander, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that U.S. airstrikes alone would not defeat al-Shabaab, the Al Qaeda-affiliated militant group with deep roots in Somalia. Instead, he said, local forces need to “step...
3 November 2016
Villa Somalia, Mogadishu
Today, 3 November, EU Ambassador Veronique Lorenzo presented her credentials to H.E. President
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of the Federal Republic of Somalia.
On her first visit to Mogadishu as Head of Delegation of the European Union to...
Joint Press Release
Mogadishu, December 5, 2016 – An annual two day Somalia education sector review meeting supported by the EU has closed in Mogadishu today. The meeting which brought together education stakeholders from the Federal Government, Jubaland, Puntland, South-west,...
PRESS RELEASE October 31st 2016
From October 29th to 30th, EUCAP Nestor conducted a two-day workshop in order to address the needs and priorities the Mission has so far identified in Puntland, reaching a broad consensus on what the Mission...
By Arno Maierbrugger
Somalia, the troubled land at the Horn of Africa with one of the most homogeneous Muslim populations in the world, is believed to benefit from the strong footprint Islamic finance is currently setting in East Africa. The...
By Abdiqani Ahmed Farah (Dala’aan) PhD
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones” John Maynard Keynes
Thabo Mbeki got unsettled by the trek of the debate on a scheduled gathering by African...
For the last 2 years, the Somali people have been painfully struggling to cope with the shocking reality of leadership failure under President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo elected on high hope of him fostering the state-building project (not leading established...
Somalia gives China license to exploit its shores and put local fishermen out of business.
In what appears to be a repeat of the famous biblical story of Esau selling his birthright to his younger brother, Jacob for a bowl...
The State Department and USAID will invest more than $500 million in Somalia this year. That comes in addition to more than $1 billion in United Nations assistance. Each may hope such funds will restore prosperity and stability to Somalia, but they are wrong. Rather...
The Roots of Somali Crisis, An Insider’s Memoir by Colonel Ahmed Omar Jess published in November 2018 presents a systematic and holistic first-hand account of the Somali crisis.
Jess aims to provide insights into the events that led to Somalia becoming...