“Ismaaciil adiga mooyee, Adoogeen Haaji mooyee, Ayeydeen Dhoofa mooyee, Uduufaa meesha joogtee. “Ismaaciil ogadada, udgoonaa ogadaadu, ma sixin baa lagu agloolay.” “Ismaaciil, were it not for you, were it not for your father, Haji, were it not for your grandmother, Dhoofa — no fragrance would linger in this place. Ismaaciil, the sweetness of your scent … Continue reading The Son’s Fragrance That Remains in the Eyes of His Mother →
A WDM Editorial There is a particular kind of sleep that overtakes a region when its capital grows fat while its periphery grows quiet. Nugaal is drifting into that sleep. Someone needs to ring the alarm before whole towns become little more than names on an old administrative map.Look at the map, if anyone in … Continue reading Wake Up, Nugaal: You Are Being Reduced to a City-State, and Garowe Is Not Apologizing →
The Sultan’s Drones: Ankara’s Descent From Somali Patron To Villa Somalia’s Hired Gun – OpEd https://www.eurasiareview.com/04092026-the-sultans-drones-ankaras-descent-from-somali-patron-to-villa-somalias-hired-gun-oped/
By Ismail H. Warsame Garowe, Puntland, Somalia -Somewhere in Ankara, someone should be asking a plain question: what is Turkey trying to win in Baidoa?The reported facts are sobering without embellishment. Southwest State officials and residents around Baidoa have for months accused Turkish drones, and at times helicopters and F-16 fighter jets, of providing air … Continue reading OpEd: Ankara’s Somali Adventure — When a Friend Becomes an Air Force for Hire →
The Haud Betrayal: A 1956 File And The Template For Ethiopian Encroachment – OpEd https://www.eurasiareview.com/02092026-the-haud-betrayal-a-1956-file-and-the-template-for-ethiopian-encroachment-oped/
Garowe, Puntland, Somalia Bt Ismail H. Warsame Mohamed Affey has spent recent weeks recounting his years as a Kenyan diplomat and mediator of the Mbagathi Somali National Reconciliation Conference, 2002-2004, in a series of interviews with Juxa Video. The episodes cast Kenya as a steady, even-handed host guiding Somali actors to consensus. What Affey omits … Continue reading OpEd: Correcting the Record: What Mohamed Affey Left Out About Mbagathi →
Somalia’s federal system is being tested on five fronts at once: the reach of federal authority, the legitimacy of constitutional amendments, security relations between Mogadishu and the states, fiscal federalism, and an increasingly disputed presidential mandate. None of these is a manufactured grievance. They are, as a matter of plain constitutional analysis, genuine problems of … Continue reading Puntland’s Constitutional Crossroads: Federalism, Confederation or Separation? →
No Due Process At Sea: Turkey’s Unilateral Strikes And The Case For A U.S.-Puntland Alternative – OpEd https://www.eurasiareview.com/31082026-no-due-process-at-sea-turkeys-unilateral-strikes-and-the-case-for-a-u-s-puntland-alternative-oped/
Garowe, Puntland, Somalia By Ismail H. Warsame Before Puntland existed as a political concept, the territory it now occupies was a patchwork of self-governing sultanates. The Sultanate of Hobyo (Obbia) and the Majeerteen Sultanate (Migiurtinia), along with the Nogal region, operated as Italian protectorates under treaties signed in 1889 and 1905. Italian oversight, on paper, … Continue reading Northeast Somalia’s Colonial Consolidation: The De Vecchi Record -OpEd →
By Ismail H. Warsame Garowe, Puntland, Somalia; Toronto, Canada — The Cameroon-flagged cargo vessel MV Lutuf, hijacked by pirates on Aug. 17 off the coast of Puntland’s Nugaal region, is free. On that single fact, Mogadishu and Garowe agree. On almost everything else, they do not — and the gap between their two accounts says … Continue reading OpEd: Freed Ship, Fractured Story — Mogadishu and Puntland Give Conflicting Accounts of the MV Lutuf’s Release →
