WAPMEN SPECIAL EDITORIAL Benjamin Netanyahu has long preached the world about Iran. For decades, he stood at podiums holding up diagrams, red lines, and apocalyptic predictions about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Today he may have realized what critics describe as his lifetime strategic objective: dragging the United States into open war with the Islamic Republic of […]
Watch videos at the bottom of the article. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AqX6uCpDm/ https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18AMzvByHF/ Cadnaan & Xariir Did What Governments Failed to Do.Let us be brutally honest.For decades, Somali administrations have held conferences in five-star hotels, flown to donor capitals, issued glossy communiqués, and spoken endlessly about “untapped potential.” Yet two young Somaliland boys — Cadnaan and Xariir — […]
WAPMEN | Commentary and Analysis The image is deliberate. The timing is deliberate. The venue is deliberate.Puntland State President Said Abdullahi Deni walks into the office of a senior Turkish diplomat in Mogadishu at a moment when Villa Somalia is navigating fragile negotiations, expiring mandates, and intensifying speculation about 2026. This is not a courtesy […]
WAPMENCommentary and Critical Analysis WHAT NEXT?The Ice Has Broken — Now the Real Fire BeginsThe first meeting between the opposition and the Federal Government has ended.Predictably inconclusive.Strategically inevitable.Politically irreversible.Let us be clear: this was never meant to produce a grand bargain. It was not a constitutional settlement. It was not an electoral roadmap. It was […]
WAPMEN Editorial Somalia stands today on the edge of a familiar abyss.The meeting rooms of Villa Somalia may have grown tense. Voices may have risen. Trust may have evaporated. But let us be brutally clear:When Somali leaders stop talking, Somalia starts bleeding.Civil war does not begin with bullets.It begins with silence.The First Shot Is SilenceEvery […]
GMS Communique The much-anticipated meeting between Golaha Mustaqbalka Soomaalia and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has collapsed.Not adjourned.Not postponed.Collapsed.Yes, there remains talk of compromise. Somali politics never dies; it mutates. But let us not confuse diplomatic oxygen with political survival. The immediate outcome of this breakdown is brutally clear:Everyone walked away with added value — except […]
WAPMEN EDITORIAL Hassan Sheikh Mohamud wanted a coronation.He got a mirror.The much-anticipated meeting between Golaha Mustaqbalka Soomaalia and the President has ended not with consensus, not with compromise, but with a political stalemate that has done something far more dangerous: it has exposed the architecture of overreach that has defined this administration.What was meant to […]
WAPMEN EDITORIAL There was a time when Puntland was not merely an administration—it was an idea.Founded in 1998 through a genuine grassroots reconciliation conference in Garowe, Puntland was born from below, not imposed from above. It was crafted by elders, intellectuals, business leaders, and community representatives who understood one harsh reality: Somalia was too fragile […]
The Gurmad Qaran Position Paper is a serious and intellectually structured civic intervention addressing Somalia’s looming May 2026 constitutional crisis—expiring mandates, no agreed electoral model, stalled constitutional review, ATMIS drawdown, and renewed insecurity. Its four-phase roadmap—diplomacy, structured negotiations, working groups, and binding timelines—is coherent and Somali-owned in conception.However, structural realities constrain its feasibility.Somalia’s political system […]
WAPMEN EDITORIALHassan Sheikh Mohamud did not win the first round of negotiations through parliamentary arithmetic, constitutional clarity, or moral persuasion. He won it through the venue.The venue in Somali politics is power.When Golaha Mustaqbalka Soomaalia initially insisted on a neutral venue, they were not arguing about hotel preference. They were asserting political equality. In a […]
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Mahdi’s statement reflect not only the full rights enjoyed by sovereign state as long as international relations are concerned but also reflect the true nature of today’s New World Order. The hype of “International community” exists only in the minds of yesteryear political class in Africa which doesn’t hold water in today’s new world order. The best example is Libya where international community are clueless themselves and divided over political crisis in Libya. This happening at the backdrop of recent new American policy in the world “America First” led by Trump administration, coupled with COVID-19 pandemic in which the world has entered instantly into politics of isolationism that each country is relentless and nakedly pursuing its own interests, While USA is aligning its politics of “share the burden” with countries in Europe, “Zero fundig in sustainable world projects” with international community and “zero military interventions”, with countries in middle east. Consequently, paving the way for other world powers like Russia, Israel, Turkey and Iran to fill the vacuum with arab puppets more willing to take the burden and undertake political interventions in Africa on its behalf away from the influence of Europe
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