October 2019

AXADLETM EDITORIAL - The resurgence of terrorist attacks in Somalia and neighboring Kenya raises a new debate over whether The UN arms embargo on Somalia has worked in full. An assessment by a Nairobi-based peace and justice lobby organization known as the International Policy Group says al-Shabaab has launched at least three attacks a week since January with deadly consequences. Al-Qaeda-linked extremists have attacked Kenyan police stations, killed soldiers and arrested suspects, destroyed communications masts in…

Reviewed by Hassan M. AbukarDelivered: A tough transition in SomaliaCreator: Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Abdiweli Mohamed Ali "Gaas" was Prime Minister of Somalia for 14 months, from June 2011 to October 2012, and is now the pinnacle of the regional authorities of Puntland. His new ebook is a memoir of his childhood, his early and later education, and his tenure as Prime Minister. Oddly sufficient, the ebook doesn't embody his years as president of Puntland.Born within the Sixties to a nomadic household in rural…

The continued humanitarian disaster in Beledweyne, the capital of Hiran province, and several other different cities in Somalia symbolizes and epitomizes systematic institutional failure in Somalia. Beledweyne, about 350 km north of Mogadishu, the Somali capital has been put in jeopardy resulting from poor technique and neglect. The neglect dates again a long time, and subsequent Somali governments will bear the blame. The town which is a gateway and a connection between the southern and central areas of Somalia…

It has been two years since Somalia's most devastating terrorist assault on October 14, 2017, within the capital Mogadishu, killed greater than 600 and left many injured or lacking. As we rejoice this unhappy anniversary and ship our honest condolences, we owe it to victims to ask questions in regards to the metropolis's readiness to reply successfully to disasters of an identical or worse magnitude sooner or later. I used to be the mayor of Mogadishu and governor of the area of Benadir when the horrific assaults…