How Diplomacy Saved the Dhusamareeb Heritage Forum from Collapse
In Dhusamareeb, AFI 2025 turned a fragile moment into a political opening for Somalia
The 9th Annual Forum for Ideas (AFI 2025) in Dhusamareeb was expected to be another policy conference. It became something else: an improbable stage-setter for dialogue between a wary federal government and a skeptical opposition, and a stress test of Somalia’s political resilience amid a fast-moving geopolitical storm.
Organized by the Heritage Institute in partnership with the Galmudug administration, the gathering drew roughly 500…