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2020 started with AS's defensive and ended with the recovery of the Group's activities, especially in urban areas; Attacks on its main gates to the capital halted its operations in Mogadishu in the first and second quarters and saw a marked decline. in the capital until the third quarter, in the last quarter of the year, after adapting to the situation, it intensified its attacks and positioned itself better at the end of the year. The most active anti-AS force while AMISOM was the least active attacker despite being…

Jubbaland, ayaa noqotay dowlad goboleedkii ugu horeeyay ee bilowda qabashada doorashooyinka xubnaha aqalka sare dowlada federaalka ee dowlad goboleedyada ka imanayo, hayeeshe waxaa la yaab ah in doorashada oo ay codeenayeen Baarlamaanka Jubbaland ee Kismaayo fadhiyo ay doorteen Ragg doornaa oo madaxtooyada Axmed Madoobe laga soo amray doorashadooda. Guddiga doorashada heer dowlad gobboleed ee Jubbaland ee kol hore Axmed Madoobe uu magacaabay ayaa horey u soo kala reebay liiska tirada aqalka sare ee Jubbaland ay leedahay,…

Inta Aan ka Hadal Soomaaliya ka hor, waxaaynu dulmareynaa dhacdooyinka dalalka gobalka; Bal u fiirso xaalada Yemen oo ay ku dagaalamayaan quwado shisheeye, oo ay horboodayaan muwaadiniin Yemeniyiin ah, sabab kasta ha noqotee. Sacuudi Carabiya iyo Isutagga Imaaraatka Carabta ayaa iska kaashanaya la dagaalanka Iiraan ee Yemen. In la burburiyo dal aan kooda ahayn, ubadkoodana aan wax loo dhimayn. Fiiri waxa ka socda Liibiya, maadaama aan wadaagno qaarad isla markaana xiriir la soo yeelanay Soomaalida horay. Ma tirin…

Two of the Farmajo fault’s severe foreshocks or preliminary shakers have occurred on Thursday, February 18 and Friday, February 19. In the first one, government troops have attacked two former presidents and current candidates at a hotel where they were organizing to lead a peaceful march against Farmajo’s illegally delayed election the next day. The second one occurred on Friday when the government fired indiscriminately at a peacefully marching citizens led by Farmajo’s former prime minister, former ministers and a few…

by Vava TampaThursday, March 25, 2021 Somalia is positioned on one of the busiest shipping routes in the world. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Frantz Fanon once quipped: “Africa is shaped like a revolver, and Congo is the trigger.” More than 60 years later, I think the French philosopher’s assessment is only half true. It leaves out Somalia – which once held the crown as the “Switzerland of Africa”, but is now again on the verge of political disintegration. To use a trigger, one must first ready the gun. Perhaps that was…

It is so funny when academics confuse fantasy with reality. It seems the writer of the article: ‘Citizens’ lack of feeling for national pride is Somalia’s root problem’ is one of those. Patriotism in Somalia has been dead from the start of the independence.  Nothing kills patriotism more than injustice and nepotism. The essay never mentioned the injustices in a Somali nation state.  We as Somalis should be straightforward with our own analysis of the country.  We should be honest and truthful.  I don’t know the…

The international community guards and finances the government of Somalia on regular basis. It spends billions of dollars on Somalia with the purpose of impeding Al-Shabab takeover of the country and keeping peace, stability and democratic process in order to enable the country to be independent for its own affairs in the future. It is also the responsibility of the international community to oversee free and fair elections and peaceful transfer of power on time to prevent dictatorship that could disrupt the gained peace…

The flames of anarchy and civil war are easily lit, and we have not yet fully extinguished the last one after thirty years. It is why our country has been too fragile and on shaky foundations for decades and indeed why, more than ever, the country needed politics of caution rather than confrontation. However, we never realized the extent to which the country was already careering into the irreversible road of anarchy and civil war noticing. What happened in Mogadishu last Friday is a timely wake-up call for every…

by Abdul Fatah M. H. Nero Monday, March 29, 2021

Immense socio-economic and political challenges anywhere produce, more often than not, a new wave of political thoughts and the people to turn them to a reality. In this part of the world, that is not the case. Challenges do exist and accumulate, but they rarely inspire new ideas or individuals to become catalyst for change. Having said that, sometimes rather unexpectedly, wild ideas and individuals turn up from somewhere, maybe from obscurity or bewilderment. This time in moment, Barkhad, the brave man of Somaliland’s…