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Somalia’s Counterterrorism Consensus Is Giving Way to Geopolitics

For much of the post-2006 period, Somalia occupied an unusual place in international diplomacy. Despite disagreements over govern...

If Fahiima Quuje and Somaliland Can Reconcile, Why Can’t All Somalis Move Beyond Conflict?...

The recent developments involving Fahiima Quuje and Somaliland raise an important question: if individuals who were once deeply in...

Beyond Piracy: How the Horn of Africa Reinvented Itself

At first light, the Port of Mogadishu moves to the rhythm of a national economy. Cargo ships discharge food, fuel and manufactured...

The Blue Economy Battle: How a Fishing Deal Tested Somalia’s Federal Experiment

For more than a decade, Somalia's federal system has rested on a fragile political compromise: that disputes over sove...

The End of the Blank Check? America’s Somalia Pivot Signals a New Era for the Horn

For nearly two decades, the architecture of international security in Somalia rested on an assumption so deeply embedded that it r...

Sadia Moalin Ali: I Want Justice and an Independent Judiciary

My name is Sadia Moalin Ali Hassan. I am a Somali mother with a 12-month-old child who still depends on breastfeeding, care, and a...

Somalia: When Force Amplifies the Very Message It Seeks to Silence

The Mogadishu confrontation exposed the limits of governing through coercion and the growing gap between power and statesmanship....

Somali Piracy is back. With Strait of Hormuz all Over the News, Renewed Threats to the Red...

Between April 21 and May 2, 2026, a sequence of incidents marked the clearest reactivation of Somali Pirate Action Group activity ...

If Somalia Is Serious About Its Future, It Must Take Children’s Rights Seriously

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Across the world, children’s rights are under strain, from conflict, displacement, poverty, climate shocks an...

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