The crisis in the Gulf countries has shifted political alliances in Somalia, which may influence the 2020/21 elections.
IBRAHIM MAGARA argues that instead of exploring opportunities to heal wounds, and mending ties in pursuit of the national interest, specifically national security, the Kenyan state...
For more than a decade, the international community has been fed the narrative that the presence of AMISOM troops is critical for the security of Somalia....
Somali women enjoy few rights in a society where clan identity is passed down through male lineage. A woman who marries a man from another clan,...
The decision by President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo’s government to put Somalia’s oil reserves on the predatory oil and extractive industries’ market argues RASNA WARAH could prove...
Somaliland’s 2017 elections, which were generally hailed as successful, have prompted some to wonder whether the democracy model used in this self-declared independent state could be...
Two decades is a very short period, particularly in the wake of war and conflict, to institutionalise the norms of a full-fledged democracy. In that time,...
~In memory of Senior Private Antonio Centenio Kaseyani~ [In the previous instalment of Remembering Kolbiyow: When a village loses a son, the funeral service of Senior...
~In memory of Senior Private Antonio Centenio Kaseyani~ News of Mwalimu Miriam’s son’s death spread in our little cosmopolitan village in Bungoma County late in the...
On 15 January 2016 and 27 January 2017, Al Shabaab fighters stormed Kenyan military bases at El Adde and Kulbiyow, respectively. Despite promising full accounts of...
Kenya had been spoiling for a fight with Somalia for some time.
