No Trust, No State: Somalia Cannot Be Built on Suspicion and Political DeceitIn Somali culture, there is an old measure of trust: Can you eat from the same plate?If you cannot share food, you cannot share power. If you cannot trust each other’s intentions over a meal, you cannot co-author a constitution.Somalia today suffers from […]
As the blessed month of Ramadan begins, we extend our warmest wishes to you and your families. Ramadan is a time of reflection, restraint, renewal, and responsibility. It is a season when conscience speaks louder than noise, when truth weighs heavier than propaganda, and when justice becomes not merely a slogan but a moral obligation.At […]
WAPMEN EDITORIAL A working lunch has been held today between Golaha Mustaqbalka Soomaalia and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Smiles were exchanged. Plates were served. But let us not be fooled by the choreography of civility.The issue before Somalia is not protocol. It is not optics. It is not who sat closer to the head of […]
WAPMEN EDITORIAL ESSAY There are visits.There are negotiations.And then there are political coronations.When Said Abdullahi Deni landed in Mogadishu after years of calculated distance, some naïve observers whispered: “Ah, reconciliation! Constitutional dialogue! Federal healing!”But in Somalia, dear reader, nothing is ever that innocent.Let us ask the forbidden question:Did Deni go to Mogadishu to fix Somalia […]
There is a question hanging over Mogadishu like a low cloud before a storm:Who controls the tongue of Somalia’s Defence Minister — and who answers for it?The current holder of that office, Ahmed Moallim Fiqi, is not a talk show activist. He is not a Facebook commentator. He is not a clan mobilizer at a […]
The Airport Compound Whispers of a Power Shift There are moments in Somali politics when nothing official has happened — yet everything has changed.Right now, Mogadishu feels different.The air is thick. The corridors are restless. The tea houses are whispering. And inside the fortified Airport Compound — that strange hybrid of sovereignty and supervision — […]
Internet Spin. Take a watch: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17tjDyHr8T/ WAPMEN Fact-check: By WAPMEN — Fearless Independent Analysis | February 2026 In the age of social-media outrage, a three-minute clip can go viral — yet distort reality. A recent video circulating online purportedly shows Abdel Fattah el-Sisi humiliating Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on the world stage during a joint press […]
WDM EDITORIALSomali politics is not won by manifestos.It is not won by ideology.It is not won by competence.It is won by reading weakness.And this time, Said Abdullahi Deni appears to have finally understood that brutal lesson. 2022: The Apprentice Who Walked Into Mogadishu UnpreparedIn 2022, Deni arrived in Villa Somalia as a regional strongman. He […]
A friend complained to me the other night, with genuine frustration: “There is no place to go for entertainment.”I did not argue. I did not console him. I answered with the only honest satire left in Somalia:“Yes, there is. The mosques?”That single line captures the entire pathology of Somali urban life. Entertainment has been abolished—not […]
WAPMEN Editorial EssaySomali politics is not a contest of ideas. It is a tournament of attrition. Leaders do not rise because they are the best; they rise because everyone else collapses at the wrong moment. Victory in Somalia is rarely earned—it is inherited from the weakness of rivals.This is the ugly, unspoken rule of our […]
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