Earlier this month, on 6 July 2022, a man named Hashi Omar Hassan was killed by an explosive device attached to his car in the capital Mogadishu. More than two decades earlier, Hashi had been sentenced to 26 years in an Italian prison for the killing of Italian reporter Ilaria Alpi and her Slovenian cameraman, Miran Hrovatin. In 2015, Hashi was acquitted on appeal, released from jail, and awarded three million euros as compensation for wrongful imprisonment.
The Statesman and the Stuntman: HSM Meets Isaias Afewerki Last week, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (HSM) flew to Asmara and spent...
Last week, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (HSM) flew to Asmara and spent four days in the country in an audacious bid to secure the return of thousands of Somali troops languishing in military camps in the Red Sea state.
In an interview with the BBC that aired on 13 July, Olympic star Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah – Mo Farah, to his legions of fans – revealed that he was trafficked as a child to the UK. Born Hussein Abdi Kaahin in Somaliland, he lost his father to a stray bullet in 1987 during the civil war, when Mo Farah was four. He said that he was flown to the UK from Djibouti at age nine by a woman he had never met. She provided him with documentation that had his photo but a different name – Mohamed Farah – which he used to enter the UK, where he believed he was going to be living with relatives. Instead, he was forced to work as a domestic servant, doing housework and providing childcare.
Them’s the Breaks: Puntland’s President Deni must move beyond electoral defeat to help build Somalia’s federation Deadly clashes er...
Did Channel 4 go too far with "Inside Al-Shabaab"? On 15 June, UK broadcaster Channel 4 News released a documentary entitled “Inside Al-S...
Pre-empting a power struggle Next week, Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will mark two months since he was elected. His chosen P...
Somalia and the Nairobi IGAD summit On July 5, the regional body, IGAD (Inter-Governmental Authority on Development), held an emergency summit in Nai...
Turkey, Somalia and the HSM government By sheer coincidence, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (HSM) landed in Turkey on the same day news agenc...
Is HSM going too far in embracing former Farmaajo supporters? The new Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (HSM) administration, in a bid to cement its credibility...
Somalia’s Security Sector is Broken: Negotiations with Al-Shabaab are not the answer (Part 2) In the pre-dawn hours of 22 June 2022, a siz...
Somalia’s Security Sector in Broken: here’s how the new government can fix it (Part 1) When the general is weak and without authority; wh...
The counter-reform will not be televised Somalia risks squandering its rare moment of hope. The promise of change expected under the leadership...
Can HSM become the democratic ‘strongman’ Somalia needs? Over the weekend, the Somali parliament endorsed Hamza Abdi Barre as Somalia&rsq...
Get down to business quick, Mr President Somalia’s new administration is taking too long to settle down. Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has no...
The success story of Berbera port and how it could realign regional relations The port of Berbera will soon be the second-largest port in the Red Sea...
The rise of fake news in Somalia and its risk to the government Traditionally, Somali society has been an oral one, in which information was pa...
Somaliland’s political impasse and the risk of backsliding Somaliland, generally seen as a beacon of democracy and whose stable security situat...
A pivot to the UAE On Sunday, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud flew to Abu Dhabi for the start of a regional tour designed to demonstrate Somalia&rsqu...
Some policy advice for Somalia's new president: If you build it, they will come Somalia’s Federal Government is steadily taking shape arou...