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July 05, 2024

The Many Shades of Terror

The Somali National Army suffers from bungling leaders, inexperienced field officers and corrupt overseers who steal food, military equipment, weapons, and ammunition to sell on the black market, reported Voice of America, citing unnamed senior American military officials. That incompetence entails costs. In the last six...

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November 02, 2023

Books and Bombs

A locally filmed, 10-part television series about Mogadishu high school students called “Arday” hit the Somali airwaves earlier this year, the Washington Post reported. A book fair, newly opened theaters, and art exhibitions have also cultivated a new Somali culture of arts and entertainment. This art...

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May 19, 2022

No More Commuting

Somalia’s newly elected president welcomed a decision by the United States to send special forces to the Horn of Africa country again, amid fears that the al-Shabab terrorist group has grown even more powerful recently, the Voice of America reported. Earlier this week, the Biden administration...

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May 17, 2022

The Comeback Kid

Somalian lawmakers elected former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the country’s tenth president Monday, following a long-delayed vote as the Horn of Africa nation grapples with a major drought and an ongoing Islamist insurgency, CNN reported. Mohamud defeated outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed – also known...

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April 18, 2022

Back To Work

Somalia’s newly elected parliament convened for the first time Saturday, a few days after lawmakers were sworn in following a long-delayed voting process and a political struggle between the president and the prime minister, Africa News reported. Hundreds of lawmakers from both houses of parliament took...

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February 28, 2022

Waiting, and Waiting

Somalia again delayed its parliamentary elections set for next month, a move that risks further exacerbating the country’s situation amid budget issues, political infighting and an Islamist insurgency, Agence France-Presse reported over the weekend. The lower house of parliament election was set for Feb. 25 and would have...

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February 24, 2022

A Long, Crooked Road

Al-Shabab terrorists recently killed five people, including two children, in an attack in the Darussalam neighborhood in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a newly developed district that has received much investment in recent years. The violence came on the heels of an al-Shabab suicide bomber blowing up...

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