Editor’s Note

The WDM article below, written several years ago while Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was in the opposition must be revisited to recognize the latter has been involving to acquire new character different from Kaaraan Syndrome: Now a seeker of other people’s land, territories and properties.

February 27, 2021

What has happened in Mogadishu between TEAM PRIME MINISTER and Team Abgaal ( Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Sharif Ahmed)?
To play the minds of Abgaal politicians and leaders and turn them around, one must find perceived enemies for Abgaal. That role is historically and traditionally goes to the manipulators of their minds. Who are these perceived enemies?
Could you figure out a single item among the core issues of Electoral Impasse that Mohamed Hussein Roble Team of Galmudugh origin had offered to the mostly Abgaal Council of Presidential Candidates in their latest agreement in Mogadishu? What was the agreement about, you wonder? There must be a trick that captured the imagination of Abgaal leaders to sign up for it without negotiating for a better deal, like participating in the National Consultative Conference on the electoral impasse. What is it?
To get an idea of what could have happened there, read this short article written a few years ago on KAARAAN SYNDRONE:
August 9, 2015
What do Ali Mahdi, Hussein Bood, Mohamed Dheere, Suudi Yalaxow, Nur Cadde, Sharif Ahmed, and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud have all in common politically other than hailing from one clan family?
They all have had bitter experience, in one way or the other, with General Caydiid’s experiment in Somalia’s Civil War. All believed psychologically that if the Family Clan of Caydiid recognizes their leadership, the rest of Somalia does not count.
I have named this the Kaaraan syndrome of the Civil War. Every major conflict of such magnitude has a similar psychological impact on its participants. Look back at recent stories about these men, and you would find ample examples and cases in point on golden political opportunities blindly missed, miscalcuted, or mismanaged.
Each of the above men had been misled by this fallacy and fallen down as a result. This is based on my personal observation on events in South-Central Somalia since 1997.

(This article has been updated since its posting)

Khalif Sheikh Mohamoud : The Undisputed Poet of his time.

By now, Somalis in the Diaspora should know that a country of their own is different from belonging to a specific tribe or clan back home. A country is more than friends or a country of 2nd citizenship. It is their share of the globe among many nations and to lose it is worse than the status of homelessness. A Clan would not give someone a country or citizenship. Other nations recognize only a country/state. One would be always identified with one’s own country of origin even if one exchanges citizenship. Yes, you say that is a “Common sense”, not worthy of reminding people, or insulting their intelligience.

Think about the futile exercises Somalis have been doing for so many centuries.Tribal relationships and allegiance exist in primative societies. Are the Somalis still in primative societal stage? Have your say.