Opinion
Too early to celebrate a Somalia–Kenya rapprochement
Somalia’s volatile internal politics make reconciliation with Kenya in the immediate future unlikely....
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Somalia’s Politics: Personality Prevails over Substance
As Somalia's politics and election process is on tenterhooks with candidates jockeying for positions in pursuit of power at all costs, it is advisable...
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The 1959 General Elections: A number of problems marred the smooth running of the exercise
The present short piece of writing follows the one appeared on Hiiraan Online Website in August 2021 in which the focus was on the malpractices and ir...
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Somalia points the way to first cashless society
The launch of a national payments system has allowed Somalia to centralise its digital payments. The country is on the cusp of a digital revolution, w...
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Somalia’s Ongoing Political Crisis Exposes Fundamental Problem for U.S. Policy
As the foreign policy community continues to reflect on United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and grapple with the failure of decades-long effo...
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The AMISOM mission in [SOMALIA] certainly expensive, but has it been successful?
According to their website, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is “an active, regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union...
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Elections with Farmajo in the Corridors of Power will Plunge Somalia into Unmanageable Disaster
After two decades of repressive dictatorial regime ousted with bloody popular uprising in 1991, the Somali people has been longing for a visionary and...
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Disinformation in Somalia’s Mediascape
We’ve all heard the quote that is often attributed to Mark Twain “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoe...
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Somalia’s President and Intel Chief Should Face Trial for Murder
The political crisis in Mogadishu sparked by the kidnapping and murder of National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) cyber-expert Ikran Tahlil F...
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Somalia’s Leaders Need to Seize Immediately the Lessons of Afghanistan
In January 2021, I published a paper on U.S. policy towards Somalia in which I expressed concern that the rapid withdrawal of U.S. military forces fro...
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