Year: 2024

Ethiopia expansionism in Somalia

A Persistent Existential Threat: Somalia’s Historical View of Ethiopia

The relationship between Somalia and Ethiopia is one of the most protracted and deeply rooted conflicts in the Horn of Africa. For Somalis, Ethiopia …

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Iran retaliation

Iran Responds to Israeli Attack Against its Embassy

Following the Israeli air strike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1, which killed diplomats and high-ranking generals…

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Mogadishu Bustling Market

Uniting for Change: Overcoming Inequality, Violence against Women and Minorities

As I traveled through various cities in Somalia and interacted with different people, I was struck by the common challenges faced by the Somali community. From pervasive inequality to violence against women and minorities, these issues continue to affect the country. However, I also witnessed a growing sense of unity among the Somali people as […]

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Hassan Sheikh's tailor-made constitution

The Unilateral Gamble: Risking Somalia’s Fragile Unity for a New Constitution

On March 30, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made a fateful unilateral gamble, forcing through a new constitutional draft in a move that is now risking Somalia’s fragile unity.

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Turkish drone attack in Baqdaad

Turkish drone kills 22 civilians in Somalia in failed counterterrorism operation

On the evening of March 18, airstrikes carried out by drones operated by Turkish troops stationed in Somalia killed 22 civilians, including children, in a small village on the outskirts of Afgoye district in Lower Shabelle.

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The Aerial Standoff over Somalia

Aerial Standoff: How Somalia’s Airspace Became a Conflict Zone

A dangerous dispute over Somalia’s skies has escalated in 2024, pitting the federal government against the breakaway region of Somaliland…

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Ethiopia deal with SL

Why Somaliland Poses an Existential Risk to the Somali Nation

The recent actions of Musa Bihi Abdi, the leader of the breakaway Somaliland region, have sparked significant concerns about the existential risk this renegade region poses to all of Somalia…

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Gaza AI generated

Palestinian Genocide: 100 days of Mass Slaughter

100 long days have passed since the start of the Palestinian genocide. 100 days during which the Zionist regime supported by the West began to massacre 31,497 Palestinians in Gaza day after day, according to Euro-Med Monitor. Nearly half of the martyrs are children. Despite claiming to only eradicate the Palestinian resistance they barely touched, […]

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MoU Protest in Mogadishu

Somali nation in unison to reject Ethiopia’ encroachment

Since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a memorandum of understanding on January 1 with Musa Bihi Abdi, the leader of the breakaway Somaliland region, the Somali nation reacted in unison by rejecting what it saw as yet another Ethiopian attempt to encroach on its territory. Even though street protests, meetings, online discussions and local […]

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HSM IOG Bihi

Somali Government Empowered Secessionist Leader

After two days meeting in Djibouti, from December 28 and 29, an agreement to restart talk on Somaliland secession between the federal government of Somalia and the secessionist region have set in motion a crisis in the Horn of Africa. This meeting, held at the behest of the British ambassador to Somalia, was hosted by […]

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