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Geopolitics

New AFRICOM Chief Inherits Failing Somalia Strategy Amid China Challenge

Staff - August 6, 2025

Key Points New AFRICOM Chief: Gen. Anderson was confirmed on July 31, 2025, and is tasked to confront the "convergence of great-power rivalry and terrorism". Strategic...

Opinion

Somaliland’s Cities Are Growing But Where Are the Sidewalks?

Staff - August 4, 2025

After 32 years of self-declared independence, Somaliland has made remarkable progress in many areas peacebuilding, elections, and private-sector growth. Cities like Hargeisa, Burao, and...

Opinion

Ilhan Omar’s Father and the Isaaq Genocide: The Truth Revealed

Staff - July 25, 2025

Between 1981 and 1991, the Somali military in which Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar’s father, served as a senior officer executed a brutal...

Geopolitics

Somaliland Asserts Red Sea Influence with Landmark Taiwan Security Pact

Staff - July 24, 2025

KEY POINTS The Pact: Somaliland and Taiwan have signed a landmark maritime security pact, deepening their strategic alliance in the Horn of Africa. Mutual Benefit: The...

Analysis

Somaliland-Ethiopia MoU 2.0?: After Ankara, Why a Pact is Now Inevitable

Staff - July 11, 2025

The recent collapse of Turkish-led mediation between Ethiopia and Somalia has inadvertently proven the strategic indispensability of the Ethiopia-Somaliland MoU. Ankara's attempt to resolve...

Opinion

Solving Berbera’s Electricity Crisis: A Roadmap for Sustainable Energy

Staff - July 10, 2025

Berbera, a coastal city located along the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, is one of the hottest cities in Somaliland in terms...

Geopolitics

Diplomatic Delusion: Ex-U.S. Official’s Call for Al-Shabaab Talks Undermines U.S. Strategy, Emboldens Terrorists

Staff - July 10, 2025

While U.S. drones rain fire on Al-Shabaab hideouts, a former U.S. official is lobbying for a peace table instead of a battlefield—offering a diplomatic...

Opinion

Clarifications on ‘Somali-Weyn’

Staff - July 9, 2025

In my recent article about Somali-Weyn and Islam-Weyn, I examined how these two ideologies, rooted in ethnonationalism and belief orientation, have been politicized in...

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