Op-Ed: The Somalia all Somalis want
The somalia we want is not a difficult question after all , the actual question is how to get to the somalia we want, what pragmatic steps we need to get to there.
In my view is simply a Somalia of ACCOUNTABILITY.
The government and the...
My Call to Action to the Global Leaders at COP26 and Next Steps in My Climate Activism
Press Release by Kamaal Hassan Adnan
In the last few days over 300 youth from all over the globe gathered in Milan, Italy for the first time in history to discuss the major challenge against humanity RIGHT NOW; Yes! of course, the climate crisis. This...
The Lost Love of Unity in the Horn of Africa Won’t be Back Again
Somaliland is a country that has achieved many issues in this fragile region. Its leaders are locally elected through democratic elections and this has made it possible to live and run its affairs alone in a peaceful way rather than Somali federal government. For...
The Deficit and Discontent of Governance and Democratic Process in the Horn of Africa Region
By: Mohamed A. Mohamoud
According to governance tenets, knowing and unknowingly the African state as a whole emanated from the colonials set up and Eurocentric notion of state-building through decolonization. The indigenous systems in Africa versus the modernity have had specific tensions and contestation in...
Geopolitics in the Horn of Africa
By: Saad M. Aareeye
The horn of Africa is a volatile region and is affected by piracy, terrorism, civil wars and growing protest which are related to either political marginalization or inflation.
The Gulf crisis that started June last year has had negative impact on the...
Foreign Accountability can’t be remedy for Lack of Domestic Accountability in Somalia
By Mohamud M Uluso
After the unprecedented ouster of former parliament Speaker by President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and Prime Minister Hassan Kheire in last April, the Federal Parliament of Somalia (FPS=House of the People and Upper House), the lead-institution for domestic accountability, ceased to exercise its...
‘MADI’: Growing Up Solo in a Somali Context
By:Muna Axmed Cumar (Mullaaxo)
It was school break time. After we had a few snacks, which we bought from the old woman who sat under the big tree in front of our school, me and two friends of mine curiously started wandering before the bell tolled...
Somaliland:Come November 13th Somaliland will elect its 5th President
2017 has most certainly been an eventful year for the self-declared nation of Somaliland. From battling with severe drought which had extinguished the lives of more than half of the country’s livestock (an estimate of over 8 million heads). Along with numerous human lives...
Ethiopia: Educating Pastoralist Lives Worth Living
By: Abdirizak Haybe
Pastoralists live in areas often labelled as peripheral, remote, conflict-prone, food insecure and linked with high levels of vulnerability. Pastoral communities of Ethiopia occupy 61% of the total landmass and 97% of Ethiopian pastoralists found in low land areas of Somali, Afar,...
When the Maqaaxi Peddlers Prevail
As an outsider looking in, the latest news from the Horn of Africa is depressing and exciting in equal measure. The Federal Republic of Somalia has yet another president. Somaliland is engaging in talks with Khaatumo and have just approved a deal to allow...
