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I visited Minneapolis the first week of July 2022 to witness the annual Somali Independence celebrations organized by the Somalis in Minneapolis. In my week-long stay there, I had the opportunity to explore the city,…
Immediately after Hassan Sheikh Mohamed returned to Villa Somalia as President, a few loud voices started calling him to release Mukhtar Robow. Robow fell out with Al-Shabaab, a notorious terror group with links to…
Understanding the Qabiil Tax phenomenon among the Somali Intelligentsia;
Saynab Haji Ali Baxsan, a well known, respected and beloved Somali singer, passed away in 19th October, 2020 in Mogadishu, Somalia. She was 85 years old. She was born in 1935 in Baabuli, Somali Region in Ethiopia. It…
Egypt; “we understood why Ethiopia intervened militarily against Islamists in Somalia” this is despite the earlier Arab consensus that Ethiopian troops should withdraw from Somalia completely.
I have worked for the BBC Somali Service as a contributor and staff from 1962 to 1977. I still have so much attachment and nostalgia for the Service for what it has done for me personally and what it has provided its…
Warsan Shire is a Somali-British writer and poet laureate born in Nairobi but raised in London. She wrote two chapbooks namely Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth and Her Blue Body.
As a non-politically motivated outsider, I would characterize Somali politics as incoherently tribal and short-sighted. Tribalism as a tool for oppression is abhorrent. Apart from indicating identity and lineage…
CONTINUITY OF GOVERNANCE IS THE ANSWER TO SOMALIA’S PROBLEMS;
The president of the self-declared Somaliland (officially recognized as Northwestern Somalia) has left the U.S. after a nearly 2 weeklong visit. He returns without any form of formal recognition but a form of a…
At least 15 people were killed after 2 suicide bombers detonated explosive vests. Amina Mohamed Abdi, a female lawmaker in the Somali Federal Parliament’s live was also cut short by the same suicide bombers on…
Cloud seeding is a method of weather modification that involves improving cloud’s ability to produce rain by distributing compounds into the air that act as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, altering the…
The Jubba River (wabiga jubba) is one of the 2 major rivers in southern Somalia that flows through the Somali Federal State of Jubaland. Beginning at the border with Ethiopia, where the Dawa River and Ganale Dorya…
Ahmedshafii is a 20 year old Somali-American Mixed Martial Artist. He has been training in MMA for almost 5 years now at his gym in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania with his head coach Kabir Amani from Afghanistan.…
The AU Mission in Somalia, which was first authorized by the African union Peace & Security Council to be then mandated by the United Nations Security Council on19th January 2007 and will be coming to end on 31st…
I joined and was present from the inception of Somalia's Petroleum Process 2005 on a high level position, when the petroleum process began in 2007, we agreed that, in order to avoid corruption, blocks would be…
Let’s try to synthesize this into a few sentences to understand web 3.0, the decentralized internet. Though it’s easy to ignore web 3.0 discourse, the underlying technology will only continue to grow in its…
At least 15 people were killed in Baledweyne, Hiraan in central Somalia on Saturday after a suicide bomber entered a café then detonating his explosive vest in the packed space teeming with local administration…
Somalia Air Force Brig. Gen. Sh Ali Mohamed Mohamud last sat in the cockpit of a Somali MiG fighter jet in March 1978.
Waxay ahayd 15, kii Agoosto 2018, markii Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Mudane Maxamed Cabdullaahi Farmaajo uu ii magacaabay Ku Xigeenka Agaasimaha Hay’adda Nabadsugidda iyo Sirdoonka Qaranka.Waxey…
In one Thursday afternoon inside the hallways of the building where the Somali Cabinet convenes its meetings, there was this elderly man with whom I had a chat, he said to me: “The 1991 collapse of the Somali State…
During the blockade on Doha, Mogadishu’s president was reportedly offered $80 million to sever diplomatic ties with the Gulf state.
Foreign aggression, Truths and Lessons for the Somali Nation & its Leadership.
As reported by the AFP last week, the TPLF pushed propaganda tapping into the historical past of Islam in the Tigray region. In their reporting- about the TPLF’s outreach pitch to Muslims (who they deem to support…