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 ...
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.
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...
Somalia Mourns Loss of Minister Khadija Diriye
The Somali nation mourns the unexpected loss of Khadija Mohamed Diriye, Somali Minister for Women and Human Rights Development, yesterday in Djibouti, at the age of 74. Ms. Diriye was…
Erdogan’s Journey to Restructure Turkish Society
For the first time since the founding of the republic in 1923, the Turkish nation has voted overwhelmingly to give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a clear mandate to continue his…
The Reason Behind the Erroneous Assumption that Somalis are Caucasian
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a belief known as the Hamitic theory gained popularity as an anthropological and linguistic theory.
How Ethiopians’ abhorrent antics distort Somali history
As an ardent pansomalist who categorically opposes any hegemonic agenda of the Ethiopians, formerly known as Abyssinians, I would like to address the revisionism of our history by chauvinistic Amharas…
Why the 1969 Revolution Still Matters Today
Today is the anniversary of the October 21, 1969 revolution that put the armed forces in control of Somalia. It all started with a bloodless coup after the assassination of…
Dila Massacre 1991
The Dila Massacre, the focal atrocity, involved a series of clan-based mass executions carried out by rebels of the Somali National Movement (SNM), dominated by the Isaaq clan, against the…