Day: 25 March 2021

Foreign Representation Cacophony and the Somali Gov’t Response

In the past few hours, there have been increasing calls from donors to Somalia over the election. Friends of Somalia have for the past 24 hours have started sending tweets calling for urgent elections. The European Union (EU) says the Somali people want the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections to take place. The EU also […]

Army Takes Over Afgoye Security From AMISOM

The Somali National Army has taken over responsibility for security in Afgoye district from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). A ceremony was held in Afgoye district of Lower Shabelle region, attended by officials including the Commander of the Armed Forces, General Mohamed Tahliil Bihi, the Deputy Commander of AMISOM, the Commander of the […]

Federal Gov’t, Puntland Trade Barbs Over Dhahar Police Brutality

Following a violent suppression of a popular uprising in the Sanag Region’s town of Dhahar, the Federal Government of Somalia issued a statement condemning the Puntland Administration’s use of live bullets to subdue the crowd. “The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) is deeply saddened by today’s heinous act in Dhahar, Sanaag region, in which Puntland […]

Kormeeraha Magazine5 days ago

Iran has, as anticipated, retaliated on Saturday to Israel's blatant attack on its embassy in Damascus on April 1. Read more:

In response to Israeli attack on its Damascus embassy, Iran retaliated by raining missiles down on the Zionist state.

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Kormeeraha Magazine6 days ago

Former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed issued a press release regarding his meeting with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Nairobi on Friday.
The meeting, organized and financed by their sub-clan elders, was intended to push the two men to find common ground on national issues that radically oppose them.
Among the contentious issues listed in the communique are the reworking of the constitution, the country's political turnaround and the dispute between President Mohamud's government and the regional state of Puntland.
In all cases, according to Sharif, the president has been inflexible. As a result, Sharif felt obliged to abandon the talks, since Mohamud had made no effort to make concessions for the sake of the nation.

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Kormeeraha Magazine6 days ago

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been summoned to Nairobi to listen to his Kenyan counterpart's proposal to defuse the conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia.
President William Ruto, in coordination with Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh, wants to convince the Somali president to give Ethiopia access to the Red Sea before Ethiopia rescinds its MoU signed with the secessionist region of Somaliland on January 1.
So far, President Mohamud has refused to enter into talks with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed unless he publicly withdraws from the MoU, which has sparked a diplomatic row between the two neighboring nations.

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Kormeeraha Magazine2 weeks ago

A group of British lobbyists visiting Hargeisa, stronghold of the clan-based Somali secessionists, vow to work towards making Somaliland a state independent from Somalia.

UK officially recognizes one Somalia but has been assisting behind the curtain the secessionist region to function independently for the last 3 decades.

The most controversial British support was the militarized police force used to harass, torture and assassinate anti-secessionist individuals and political dissenters from Awdal and in the now free SSC-Khaatumo region.

Somaliland's desperation for recognition as an independent state has attract lobbyists from the US, UK, EU and even from some African nations.

The secessionists have spent millions of dollars on this lobbying that only drained this impoverished region's revenues.

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Kormeeraha Magazine2 weeks ago

Why Somalia's president replacing the NISA chief now? Read more here:

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud replaced Mahad Mohamed Salad with Abdullahi Mohamed Sanbalolshe as the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) director.

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Kormeeraha Magazine2 weeks ago

One day after Puntland signed a cooperation deal with Ethiopia, the federal government expelled the Ethiopian ambassador and demanded the closure of its consulates in Hargeisa (Somaliland) and Garowe (Puntland).

As expected, the two self-governing regions at odds with the federal government quickly rejected Mogadishu's appeal.

The Somali government under President Hassan Sheikh Mahmud has alienated itself from regional states and has no means of enforcing its orders outside the national capital.

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