Opinion
Somali Elections: Who’s Who in the race to unseat Farmaajo?
Somalia’s Federal Electoral Implementation Team (FEIT) announced that 294+ members of the parliament are certified MPs from both lower and upper hou...
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Separation of Powers Between Somali Parliament, President, and Executive
Finally, on April 14, 2022, the Somali people and the international partners of Somalia breathed a sigh of relief on witnessing the swearing in of the...
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Somalia is still fragile: what the new African Union mission can do to help stabilise it
The African Union Mission in Somalia – AMISOM – has ended its 15-year political and military experiment in post-conflict state building. On 1 Apri...
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Fake News, National Security and Somaliland Media
For a free and democratic society, the people would expect the media to cover political and social events and information in an accurate, concise, and...
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The Real Victim of Somalia’s Failed Governance
In his scapegoat mechanism theory, French historian and philosopher Rene Girard asserts that in conflict resolution tools, the contending groups colla...
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Somalia’s election spoilers must not be allowed to delay the election any longer
Somalia's political history has been tumultuous. It has been engulfed in electoral disputes and conflict between the incumbent and prominent oppositio...
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1959: The rebellion of the “Majerteen” MPs
As the country became increasingly jittery on the eve of independence, competing factions within the ruling party, the Lega dei Giovani Somali, starte...
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A protracted political limbo: What is at stake?
The electoral process in Somalia has been dragging on since the last year, due to multiple delays caused by stand-offs between politicians and technic...
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Somaliland Waaheen Market fire was caused by an epic government failure
This week, a blaze destroyed the Waaheen, the largest open market in Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital. The Firefighters were having problems accessing...
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Why is the American right waging a stealth neocolonial assault on Somalia?
On March 14, the conservative Heritage Foundation played host to the president of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia "whose self-declared indep...
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