Many thanks to the editorial team at Hiiraan Online for this faithful and balanced review of my recent article on #Somalia for @africacenter.bsky.social. www.hiiraan.com/news4/2025/N...

Sahan Research analyses the evolving nature of maritime insecurity in the Red Sea in the latest #SomaliWire - exploring the resurgence of Somali piracy and Houthi attacks, and the complex geopolitical and economic motivations behind them. #Somalia #piracy #terrorism Read here: t.co/707zyxTBwe

My gratitude to @AfricaACSS for publishing my latest piece on the growing risk of a jihadist takeover in Somalia - and what it would take to prevent it. hashtag#Somalia hashtag#AlShabaab hashtag#HornofAfrica hashtag#HoA hashtag#Security africacenter.org/publication/...

"Leaders facing internal decay often externalize crisis..." #Ethiopia #Eritrea newlinesmag.com/argument/eri...

Tough but fair. The Economist's new podcast about Erik Prince and the future of PMCs. Worth a listen. #Iraq #Somalia #DRC #Haiti #Ukraine # www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

Sigh... Djibouti parliament vote to lift presidential age limit allows Guelleh re-run rfi.my/C84a.BS

🚨 BREAKING #Ethiopian PM Abiy received #Somalia President Hassan in Addis Ababa. Sources say the visit aims to block #Somaliland President Cirro's planned trip to Addis and seek Ethiopian backing for #Mogadishu’s plan to detach Gedo region from #Jubaland administration led by Madoobe.

#Ethiopia accuses #Eritrea of preparing for war as Red Sea tensions rise in a letter its Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos sent to the UN chief Antonio Guterres.

#Somaliland’s Electoral Commission Wins Global Transparency Award in Botswana "The award also underscores Somaliland’s growing reputation as a model of democratic governance in the Horn of Africa." #elections #democracy horndiplomat.com/2025/10/soma...

Somalia’s opposition Salvation Forum, together with #Puntland & #Jubaland state leaders form the "Council for Somalia's Future", following talks in Nairobi. They called for a national summit inside #Somalia to finalize the council & urged unity against threats to stability.

Crisis Group warns looming electoral showdown could plunge #Somalia into fresh turmoil, calling urgent inclusive talks between stakeholders on 2026 vote rules — or risk a repeat of past violence and paralysis. @comfortero.crisisgroup.org @crisisgroup.org

As President Hassan Sheikh attends UNGA this week without a much-needed Jubaland deal, and amid mounting AUSSOM debt and Al-Shabaab advances, Villa Somalia’s diplomacy looks adrift nine months into its UNSC tenure. Read more in our latest #Somalia #SomaliWire: sahan.global/issues/the-som

By Sahan Research, #Ethiopia and #AI '[These] are the ones now directing much of our future, a handful of nearly exclusively white North American men, wealthy, vainglorious and battling out the future of humanity with their egos in the race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data supremacy'

Jubaland’s crisis spills into Mandera - with Villa Somalia destabilising Gedo and AS exploiting the vacuum, Nairobi’s partnership with Madoobe remains a necessary, if uncomfortable, pillar. Read more in Sahan's latest #SomaliWire: sahan.global/issues/the-s...

Somaliland's quest for international recognition receives a powerful vote of support from an unexpected quarter. #Somaliland #Somalia americanmind.org/salvo/why-so...

Sahan's latest #SomaliWire unpacks the NSF's rejection of Villa Somalia’s splinter deal and the sustained electoral impasse with Jubaland and Puntland still excluded. The concerns over Mogadishu's flawed polls rumble on. #Somalia #Elections #Conflict Read more: sahan.global/issues/the-s...

Senator Ted Cruz urges the US government to recognise the Republic of Somaliland as an independent state ahead of a visit to Washington, DC by its President, Abdirahman 'Irro'. #Somaliland #Somalia

In our latest #SomaliWire, we unpack the possible consequences of the FGS's proposed closed-list, single constituency model. Excluding most of Somalia, the FGS OPOV plan presents as a democracy in name only. Read more: sahan.global/issues/the-s...

Only foreign aid and African Union troops stand between Somalia's embattled federal government and an Al-Shabaab takeover.#Somalia #conflict #terrorism www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Excellent and sober analysis from Abdusalam Salwe on the deepening crisis in #Somalia. garoweonline.com/en/opinions/...

The Somali Wire this week looks at the fall of Moqokori to Al-Shabaab and its wider implications for the counterinsurgency campaign in central Somalia. To read, subscribe to @SahanResearch publications: sahan.global

US Congressman Scott Perry pushes for recognition of Somaliland as an independent state. #Somaliland perry.house.gov/news/documen...

An excellent, well-balanced piece of analysis on Somalia's prospects in the face of a resurgent Al-Shabaab and diminishing international security assistance, by Dr Daisy Muibu and Yayedior Mbengue at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. #Somalia #AlShabaab ctc.westpoint.edu/somalia-at-a...

Nothing new in this article, but it's a useful update on Somaliland's rising stature on the international stage.#Somaliland #Somalia www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Kenyan President William S. Ruto received Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi 'Irro' at State House, Nairobi, on 29 May 2025 to discuss strengthening relations between the two governments. #Somaliland #Kenya

A leading Somali opposition figure, Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame, analyses his country's deepening crisis. #Somalia substack.com/@abdirahmanw...

The new “Justice and Solidarity Party” isn’t about justice, solidarity, or elections—it’s about Villa Somalia tightening its grip. Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook, #Somalia risks sliding from fragile federalism into one-man rule. Read more here:https://sahan.global/issues/sw-issue-819

The United States mulls over its options in Somalia as Al-Shabaab advances on the capital, Mogadishu. #Somalia www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

En Somalie, les insurgés chabab gagnent du terrain sans réaction du gouvernement #Somalia #Somalie #Shabaab #Conflict #Security www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

An excellent article in yesterday's Addis Standard sets out #Somalia's "last chance" to prevent an Al-Shabaab victory and the emergence of a "radical Islamist state in the Horn of Africa". addisstandard.com/from-insurge...

One of Somalia's prominent opposition politicians, Abdirahman Abdishakur, calls for urgent political reforms to avert a takeover by Al-Shabaab militants. #Somalia #Shabaab wardheernews.com/al-shabaabs-...

JUST IN: #Somalia's govt forces raided Risaala Media HQ in Mogadishu, shut it down and arrested staff—hours after the outlet reported on a blast targeting the president's convoy.

"The fall of Mogadishu is no longer wishful thinking or hyperbole; it is a real possibility.” - Rashid Abdi, Sahan Research #Somalia #Shabaab #Sahan somaliguardian.com/news/somalia...

A power struggle in Tigray risks Ethiopia’s peace deal: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social) #Ethiopia #Tigray #Eritrea

More evidence of atrocity crimes in Sudan. Transitional justice and accountability lie in the distant future, but documentation and collection of evidence should not wait. #Sudan #Justice #IHL www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Mortars Fired Into Mogadishu Airport as Ethiopian PM Arrives for Visit BREAKING: Suspected Al-Shabaab militants fired at least 11 mortars into Somalia's main airport on Thursday, moments before #Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed arrived for an official state visit. eastleighvoice.co.ke/aden%20adde%...

BREAKING: #Kenya's Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen confirms ongoing talks for the release of 5 abducted chiefs but withholds details for security reasons. Local media report that Al-Shabaab militant group is demanding 7M Kenyan shillings ransom for their release.

After a week of intensified military activity in #Somalia's Middle Shabelle region, Al-Shabaab conducted a raid this morning on Balcad town, just 35km north of Mogadishu. www.caasimada.net/al-shabaab-o...

BREAKING: #Burundi troops to withdraw from #Somalia after 17 years of peacekeeping over a dispute with #Mogadishu on AUSSOM deployment numbers. Here are troop-contributing countries; 🇺🇬 Uganda - 4,500 🇪🇹 Ethiopia - 2,500 🇩🇯 Djibouti - 1,520 🇰🇪 Kenya - 1,410 🇪🇬 Egypt - 1,091

A scathing, but largely accurate critique by Mursal Khalif of Somalia's feckless federal government and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's determination to stay in power at any cost. On its current trajectory, #Somalia risks a return to state failure. wardheernews.com/mixing-count...

Transparency International's annual 'Corruption Perceptions Index' ranks #Somalia as the second most corrupt country in the world, after South Sudan. www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024/...

Somalia is the world’s first WhatsAppocracy, says The Economist. Cheap data, social media and creativity are filling in for an absent state🧵🧵🧵🧵🧵

US airstrikes against ISIS in Puntland may signal a shift away from support to Somalia's faltering federal government and towards more effective and committed FMS authorities. #Somalia #Alshabaab #Puntland www.reuters.com/world/africa...

BBC's Mary Harper explores the implications of recent US airstrikes in #Somalia against the Islamic State group. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🚨 BREAKING: #Puntland state security forces claim to have killed over 40 ISIS fighters—mostly foreigners—after capturing the group's stronghold in Togjaceel, located in the Cal-Miskaad mountains of #Somalia’s Bari region. Several Puntland soldiers were also killed in the battle, state forces adds.

‘It was almost a relief when someone died’: former prisoners on the torture and terror of Eritrea’s secret prisons. An excellent reminder of the brutality of the PFDJ's rule in #Eritrea. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

🚨 BREAKING: Abdikarim Ahmed, chair of #Somalia's disputed Electoral Commission, announces political association registration open until March 31 and plans to expand polling stations from 300 to 800. Former federal leaders, #Puntland and #Jubaland regional states have boycotted the commission.

Martin Plaut: "Sophia Tesfamariam – Mouthpiece of the Eritrean dictatorship – now Vice President of the UN’s Children’s organisation" #Eritrea #PFJD #UNICEF martinplaut.com/2025/01/19/s...

Another indication of growing US interest in Somaliland, as the Chair of the House Select Committee on the CCP calls for a 'representative office' to be established in Hargeysa. #Somaliland #Somalia