In the past few days, as we watched hundreds of trucks carrying food and medicine roll into Gaza as the first phase of a US-led peace deal, it was too difficult to restrain oneself and avoid telling jubilant Gazans that the whole thing was a sham deal for optics. Despite the hostage exchange, deal-breaker points … Read more Peace And Greater Israel: All Roads Lead To Turkey – OpEd
I don’t know who coined the phrase ‘a pessimist is an experienced optimist,’ but I find some comfort in it when analyzing current and the foreseeable future of Somalia. The fourth-year political fever is running high once again. The same failed politicians, the same overambitious dual-citizen candidates, and the same Halane loyalists who believe that … Read more Somalia Between Red Sea and ‘GERD’ Faultline
In the past few years, Somalis in the federal state of Puntland have been living under a ruthless terrorism campaign. The perpetrators periodically attacked soft targets, government facilities, assassinated societal elites, and business owners who were not forthcoming in paying extortion money. While these kinds of terrorism acts are not unique to Puntland, the official … Read more ISIS In Somalia: Fact Or Fiction? – OpEd
Like many people around the world, I rejoiced with the liberated Syrian people when the tyrannical dynasty of a father and son that oppressed them for more than half a century finally came to an end. There is no doubt that the revolutionary lightning that struck Syria and brought down the regime with speed of … Read more A New Syria By Union Of Clashing Interests – OpEd
Whilst the memorandum between Addis Ababa and Hargeisa has brought issues around Somalia’s sovereignty back into the spotlight, addressing the sovereignty-deficit is an old problem. Somalis find themselves in a race against time as Turkiye’s abortive attempts to broker a deal between Somalia and Ethiopia stall. Meanwhile, the likelihood of Addis Ababa advancing its memorandum … Read more Can Somalia Regain Its Sovereignty?