Arts

Arday: A Cultural Revolution Unveiled in Somali TV Series

In the embryonic but promising realm of the Somali film industry, a TV series called “Arday”, which means “student” in Somali, has risen as an innovative and boundary-breaking phenomenon…

Somali Nation Mourns Hadraawi Passing

Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame “Hadraawi”, Somalia’s most revered poet and intellectual, passed away today in Hargeisa. He succumbed at the age of 79 to a long illness that had eaten away at him for some years.

What The Gravedigger’s Wife Win Means For Somali Film Future

The Gravedigger’s Wife won the grand prize at the prestigious Pan-African Film Festival, FESPACO, in Burkina Faso…

Somali Women in Photography

Still Life is the handiwork of Sagal Ali, the director of the Somali Arts Foundation, which she founded in September 2020…

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Kormeeraha Magazine @kormeeraha.bsky.social 1d ago

#Somalia & #BurkinaFaso couldn’t be further apart — one hugs the Indian Ocean, the other is landlocked in the Sahel. But analysts have been drawing a grim parallel for years. Both nations are besieged by al-Qaeda affiliates & they're both #Türkiye's clients...
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Kormeeraha Magazine @kormeeraha.bsky.social 5d ago

The attack on #Mali on April 25 underscored both the vulnerabilities & the latent strength of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). The alliance was designed to replace foreign security dependencies with African-led coordination...
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Kormeeraha Magazine @kormeeraha.bsky.social April 30, 2026

Somalia, under the Western-backed presidency of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has become a police state where freedom of expression is a crime. Sadia Moalim is just the latest victim of a system where everyone risks arbitrary arrest & torture, and where justice no longer exists.
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Kormeeraha Magazine @kormeeraha.bsky.social April 29, 2026

As the Turkish drillship Çağrı Bey bores into a potential 10-billion-barrel well off Somalia’s coast—escorted by Turkish F-16s and frigates—a fierce debate erupts: Is this a strategic alliance, or a new form of dependency?
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Kormeeraha Magazine @kormeeraha.bsky.social April 27, 2026

Sudan’s war is no longer just a domestic struggle. It has become an internationalized conflict shaped by covert foreign involvement, illicit economies...

Sudan’s War Without Borders: Covert Alliances and a Shadow Conflict www.kormeeraha.com/sudans-war-w...