By WDM Editorial Desk Act I: The Republic That Was Once upon a time, there was a Somali Republic — singular, hopeful, and fragile. Born in 1960, with independence as its birthmark and unity as its ideal, it lasted barely three decades before collapsing under its own contradictions. That was the First Somali Republic — […]
© Warsame Digital Media (WDM), October 2025 In the cacophony of Somali politics, one begins to notice a familiar pattern — old enemies of Puntland reemerging under new and deceptive banners: “New Jubaland,” “North East State,” “New Puntland.” These are not creative political innovations. They are cynical attempts by Villa Somalia’s DamulJadiid operatives to sow […]
WARSAME DIGITAL MEDIA (WDM) EDITORIAL © WDM 2025 The Broken Runway of Promises The business community of Galkayo has once again landed in Garowe—not for leisure, not for investment forums, but to remind Puntland’s leadership of something so basic, it should have been completed years ago: Abdullahi Yusuf International Airport. Once heralded as a symbol […]
By Ismail H. WarsameGarowe – October 25, 2025 Garowe is holding its breath again — or perhaps choking. Every time the Puntland House of Representatives convenes for a “session,” the city’s narrow arteries clog with Toyotas sporting tinted windows, pickup trucks overloaded with bewildered guards, and ministers who think parliamentary duty means parking diagonally across […]
By Ismail H. Warsame – Warsame Digital Media (WDM) A Deal Without Dignity: The Laascaanood Mirage When President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced his anticipated visit to Laascaanood, many believed it would mark a historical reconciliation — a long-awaited recognition of SSC-Khatumo’s legitimacy after months of heroic resistance against Somaliland’s occupation. Yet, as the political smoke […]
WARSAME DIGITAL MEDIA (WDM)Critical Analysis, Political Memoir, and Historical Truths By Ismail H. Warsame A Youth Caught in the Crossfire of a “Revolution” In the turbulent year of 1969, I was a third-year student at Banadir Secondary School, Mogadishu—a young mind hungry for knowledge, unaware that my generation was about to be shackled by a […]
Two Fateful Nights That Forged Puntland August 30, 2015 The collapse of the Somali National Reconciliation talks in Cairo in 1997 sent key political actors scrambling. The co-chairmen of the National Salvation Council (NSC, or Sodare Group), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and General Aden Abdullahi Nur Gabyow, managed to depart Cairo safely for their temporary headquarters […]
By Ismail H. Warsame | Warsame Digital Media (WDM) The Existential Question Laascaanood stands at a precipice. It is a city politically isolated, economically exhausted, and strategically contested, caught between the competing sovereignties of Puntland and Somaliland. Both claim its territory; neither commands the allegiance of its people. The residents of the SSC-Khatumo region are […]
A Rare Evening at Bar Saqajaan Back in my boarding school days at Banadir Secondary School in Mogadishu, three of my closest friends and I often slipped away after study hours for a taste of freedom and laughter. The school compound also housed many Soviet teachers—disciplined, reserved, and methodical—sent on secondment to teach English and […]
Do you know that without the pioneering work of Adam Jama Bihi with his war-torn society, the creation of Puntland State would have been difficult, if not impossible? Ask around—people who witnessed those early days will tell you. As Project Manager of War-Torn Society—an international NGO financed and based in Switzerland—operating in the North-East Regions […]
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