Somalia News News Somalia » Politics: Somalia needs a political settlement before it is too late
Somalia is entering one of the most dangerous moments in its recent history without an agreed path towards elections or a political transition. United States and United Kingdom-led talks between the ...
News Somalia » Politics: Peace over rivalry - Somalia's future lies in cooperation, not confrontation with Ethiopia
Somalia needs a foreign policy that gives its people a better chance of living in peace. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud should place cooperation with Ethiopia at the center of that effort while ...
News Somalia » Politics: Somali opposition MP warns Somalia’s election timetable risks political conflict
Somali opposition lawmaker Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame has rejected the electoral commission’s newly announced timetable for the 2027 parliamentary and presidential elections, warning that ...
News Somalia » Politics: Somalia and 14 Years of Indirect Elections: When will citizens reclaim their vote?
In 2012, Somalia adopted a constitution that established a federal political system and envisioned an electoral process in which citizens would ultimately participate directly in choosing their ...
News Somalia » Politics: Healing At Home: What A Garowe Hospital Reveals About Somalia’s Governance Gap – OpEd
For as long as I can remember, the quickest way to learn that a Somali official was ill was to check the departure lounge. A minister develops a cough, and by ...
News Somalia » Politics: Somalia: Politicians must make a deal on upcoming elections to avoid further turmoil
Somalia’s government and political opposition are locked in a struggle over elections due by 15 May, when the government’s four-year mandate expires. With the polls certain to be delayed and time ...
News Somalia » Politics: How Oil Could Rewrite Somalia’s Political Economy – OpEd
The pursuit of offshore hydrocarbons in the Horn is a high-stakes geological poker game, and Türkiye’s state-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has just pushed its chips to the middle of the ...
News Somalia » Politics: Turkey’s growing military role in Somalia draws it into internal political crisis
Turkey has poured huge sums into making Somalia one of its main foreign outposts but is being drawn into the country’s violent political battles, risking the goodwill it has built. Turkish F-16s were ...
News Somalia » Politics: Somalia’s Unity and the Politics of Selective Nationalism
EDITORIAL | For more than three decades, Somalia has remained trapped between two competing political realities: the search for national unity and the gradual normalization of division. Since ...
News Somalia » Politics: Why Mogadishu clashes are deepening Somalia’s political crisis again
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mogadishu, Somalia – Mustafa, 33, dreads election time in Somalia. He drives a bajaj — a three-wheeled taxi — and says that when ...