Constitution

Can Somalia’s Fragile State Survive Its Sweeping Constitutional Gamble?

A fierce political battle is underway in Somalia’s capital following President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s endorsement of a new constitution…

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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Kormeeraha Magazine @kormeeraha.bsky.social 1d ago

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 2d ago

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 4d ago

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...

Kormeeraha Magazine @kormeeraha.bsky.social 4d ago

“A whole civilization will die tonight.”

So spoke Trump the Barbarian.

On April 7, after five weeks of relentless bombing campaigns over Iran, the U.S. president vowed to erase 93 million lives in a single night.

The Night Civilization Was Threatened
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