WARSAME DIGITAL MEDIA (WDM) –  EDITORIAL

Somalia is no longer simply failing. It is being dragged—deliberately—toward fatal disintegration by a presidency that has exhausted its moral legitimacy, constitutional mandate, and political usefulness. Today, every indicator points not to mere instability but to an approaching national event horizon, a point of no return from which no federal system, no institution, and no social compact can be retrieved.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has now crossed the Rubicon. His regime is no longer attempting to govern; it is attempting to rule by decree, extension, manipulation, and substitution of the constitution with personal ambition. His appointment of a new puppet prime minister is not an administrative decision—it is a political demolition charge designed to clear the path for illegally extending his mandate.

Somalia has seen this film before—but never with this level of recklessness.

A Parallel Government? Somalia Approaches Uncharted Territory

The emerging response from the regions and opposition—the Golaha Mustaqbalka (Puntland, Jubaland, and the Mogadishu opposition)—signals a moment Somalia has never witnessed in the post-civil war era:
the open preparation for a parallel federal government.

Their next summit in Kismayo is expected to produce not just communiqués and warnings, but the birth of a competing political authority. This is no longer speculation. It is happening in real time.

Think of the implications:

Two rival federal systems claiming legitimacy

Two “presidents,” two “prime ministers,” two “parliaments”

Competing international alliances

Fragmentation of the command structures of security forces

Collapse of national coordination

Total paralysis of governance

This is the Lebanonization of Somalia.
This is the Libyan scenario in the Horn.
This is the undoing of two decades of international investment—in slow motion.

A Vacuum Waiting to Be Filled by Fire

When political institutions collapse, the vacuum is never empty for long.
Somalia knows this painfully well.

Al-Shabaab, ISIS, and emerging extremist networks thrive in fractured environments:

Rival governments

Distracted politicians

Broken national command structure

Distrust between regions

Security fragmentation

This political meltdown is not simply dangerous—it is fatal.

Extremists do not need permission; they only need opportunity.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is giving them that opportunity on a silver platter.

WDM’s Appeal to the International Community: DO NOT BE COMPLICIT THROUGH SILENCE

The world has invested billions in Somali recovery.
Billions.
Monetary investments, security support, development programs, and political stabilization missions.

All of that now stands at the brink of liquidation.

WDM issues this urgent and uncompromising appeal to:

The United Nations

The African Union / ATMIS

IGAD

The United States

The European Union

The United Kingdom

Turkey

The Gulf States

International partners and global democratic forces

Silence at this moment is complicity.
Your hesitation will be interpreted as approval of an illegal power grab.
Your inaction will accelerate Somalia’s descent into chaos.
Your neutrality will be remembered as abandonment.

Somalia does not need more statements.
Somalia needs decisive international engagement to prevent a total state rupture.

A Call to Somali People With Common Sense

WDM also appeals directly to the Somali public:
the thinkers, the elders, the business community, the youth, the mothers, the diaspora, and those who still believe in the federal vision.

This is your country.
This is your future.
Your silence is giving permission to a political elite determined to wreck the nation for personal survival.

Now is the moment to speak, organize, pressure, demand, and mobilize.
Once the country fractures into parallel governments, it will not be repaired for generations.

Conclusion: Somalia Still Has a Chance—but Not for Long

Somalia is balancing on a razor’s edge.
One wrong political decision, one illegitimate mandate extension, one reckless manoeuvre—and the entire federal system will crumble.

WDM warns, in the clearest terms:
Somalia is entering an irreversible danger zone.
Preventing national collapse is still possible, but only if action is taken now, not after the damage is done.

WDM urges the world community and all Somali citizens with conscience to resist this slide into darkness before the country crosses the final red line.

History will judge all who remained silent.

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(WDM Edition — No Mercy, No Makeup, No Illusions)

Cue the drums. Light the torches. Release the clowns.
The great Somali political circus is back in town for the 2026 election season — and like every cheap, recycled travelling show, the script hasn’t changed since Siyad Barre rode this horse into the ground. The faces age, the slogans mutate, the logos get rebranded, but the disease remains fatal and untreated: Somalia’s political class isn’t trying to save the nation — only to seize the keys to Villa Somalia and loot whatever organs are still functioning.

Let the masquerade begin.

Act I: The Pretenders Take the Stage

On one side is DamulJadiid, the only faction in Somalia that actually knows how to organize, manipulate, and execute a long game. They are the engine behind a leader whose shadow dreams of a third term are becoming less shadowy by the day — a political ghost haunting Somalia’s already haunted house.

Opposing them is a collection of “coalitions” so flimsy they could be blown away by a desert breeze. These groups don’t resemble political movements; they resemble counselling groups for failed candidates:

• Nabad & Nolol (N&N)

Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo has returned to Banadir like a man testing bathwater in a public toilet. Is it warm enough? Are the loyalties for sale? Are old allies still alive — or alive enough to bribe?

• Golaha Samatabixinta — “The Salvation Council”

Because nothing screams “We have no plan” like slapping the word “salvation” on a group of career politicians who couldn’t save a houseplant.

• Golaha Mustaqbalka — “The Future Council”

A name vague enough to be a telecom company or a pyramid scheme. Their only shared “future” is each one imagining himself sitting on the presidential throne while the others serve tea.

These aren’t alliances — they’re holding pens for presidential candidates, ego camps disguised as political coalitions, and tributes to the old “S-fronts” of the 1980s: Same actors, same delusions, same tragic comedy.

Act II: The Courtship — Romance, Lies, and Diaspora Airbnbs

Brace yourselves for a parade of useless “unity meetings” hosted in Nairobi villas, Doha lounges, Ankara hotels, and Dubai’s most forgettable conference rooms.

Watch sworn enemies grin and clutch hands for the camera, each eyeing the other like a hyena deciding which limb to amputate first.

Press releases will thunder about:

“Historic agreements”

“A new dawn for Somalia”

“Unified vision”

Meanwhile, every signatory will be secretly on WhatsApp with his foreign financiers whispering:
“Don’t worry, I’m still running. These other fools are just temporary luggage.”

Act III: The Auction — Somalia Goes to the Highest Bidder

This is when the real entertainment begins.

MPs-to-be — Somalia’s infamous “electoral college” — transform overnight into political livestock whose market price skyrockets by the hour. Suitcases shuffle through airports. Dollar-shaped halos form above candidate heads. Ministries are promised like bags of sugar.

Ideas? Zero.
Policy? Non-existent.
Reform? Stop dreaming.

This is a nationwide auction where loyalty is sold by the kilo, and every candidate believes he’s the master bidder — not realizing he’s also for sale.

Act IV: The Betrayal — Somalia’s National Sport

Then comes the inevitable crescendo.

A prominent N&N figure will “find religion” and defect to DamulJadiid “for the sake of national unity.”

A member of the “Future Council” will suddenly rediscover the past — specifically whichever past alliance pays better.

The “Salvation Council” will split into more pieces than Mogadishu’s roads.

The so-called opposition will collapse into its natural state:
a stampede of self-propelled egos racing toward individual deals with whoever offers a ministry, a motorcade, and a microphone.

Meanwhile, in the Real Somalia…

While the elites binge on political seduction and betrayal:

Al-Shabaab continues to tax, slaughter, and administer justice.

Droughts tighten the noose.

Displaced families rot in tent cities.

The economy limps along like a wounded camel.

Youth flee — by sea, by plane, or by coffin.

But none of this matters in the Masquerade. Somalia’s suffering is merely a prop in campaign speeches — a decorative tragedy wheeled onstage when convenient, shoved offstage when the applause fades.

The Final Tragedy

The real catastrophe is not that this grotesque performance happens.
It is that Somalis have learned to expect it.

This is not a political process — it is a metronome of dysfunction, a perpetual farce replayed with religious precision every election cycle.

The actors are the same.
The excuses are the same.
The delusions are the same.
The ending is the same.

And the losers — without exception — are the Somali people.

So grab your popcorn.
The Great Somali Masquerade is underway again.
Place your bets.
The clowns are ready.
The stage is collapsing.
And the audience — long-suffering, long-ignored — is left praying the circus burns itself down before the country does.

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