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Somalia: Fishing licenses weaken federal member states

Somali Fisheries Minister Signing the agreement in the presence of Deputy PM
Many Somalis who support a permanent Somali government's right to enter agreements with foreign companies now oppose fishing licenses given to foreign powers, Argue Liban Ahmad Two weeks ago the Federal Government of Somalia  (FGS)  gave Chinese companies fishing...

Clan-based Identity and Religious Extremism in Somalia

International Crisis Group commentary on the outcome of Southwest State election unfairly portrays a Somali social group as being “susceptible to recruitment into the insurgency”, argues Liban Ahmad The outcome of the recent controversial   election in Southwest State of...

Somalia: Southwest Liaison Office Opens in Garowe

By.Yusuf Jama ,Horndiplomat correspondent in Garowe The Southwest State Community in Puntland launched a liaison office to deepen relations between the two federal member states. People from Bay, Bakool and Lower Shabelle maintain sizable presence in Puntland and have...

Op-Ed:Why ICAO Should Not Trust Farmajo Regime in Mogadishu

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), UN agency specialized in aviation, must know that Somalia has no formal government that controls or functions across its territory in last thirty years. It is unfortunate that the regime in Mogadishu is not on the right path to...

Somalia’s capital Mogadishu hit by huge explosion

an explosion rocked in Mogadishu and targeted to security checkpoint near presidential palace of Somalia photo Somali online news
Horndiplomat- A suicide car bomb hit a security checkpoint outside the national theatre in central Mogadishu, deaths and injuries reported. Explosion has damaged nearby buildings including a media house . At least three dead after car bomb explosion in...

Statement by Ambassador Yamamoto on U.S. Support to Somalia

U.S. Ambassador Donald Y. Yamamoto's presentation of credentials to President of the Federal Republic of #Somalia Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed "Farmaajo" on November 17, 2018 in Mogadishu
The United States re-established permanent diplomatic presence in Mogadishu, Somalia on December 2, 2018.  USAID also re-established presence.  To create a better tomorrow for the people of Somalia, the United States is committed to providing more than $900 million in critical investment.  The United...

Somalia: Sahan Research and Political Insight

The Somali government cannot persuade EU countries to stop commissioning Sahan Research to write on Somali politics, writes Liban Ahmad The Federal Government of Somalia banned Sahan Research from operating in Somalia. The government accused the research company of...

Op-Ed:Nativist Politics in Somalia

Nativist  politics  in Somalia leaves half of Somalis without citizen rights, argues Liban Ahmad In January 2019 twenty eight years will have passed  since armed opposition fronts ousted the military dictatorship in Mogadishu. A new type of  politics, I will  call nativist,  filled the vacuum....

Somalia Minister of Public Works resigns over the arrest of Mukhtar Robow

Horndiplomat-Somalia Minister for Public Works Abdifatah Ibrahim Geesey resigns over alleged federal Government interference into Southwest election proceeds and the detention of Mukhtar Robow. On December 13, Mukhtar Robow, once al-Shabab’s spokesman, was arrested by Ethiopian troops that are part of the African Union peacekeeping...

Why Ethiopian troops are in Somalia

The Somali Federal Parliament would do well to discuss why the previous government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud rescinded the TFG-ARS agreement, argues Liban Ahmad Many Somalis are asking questions about the role of Ethiopian troops in the...