Somalia at the Edge of the Cliff: A Final Appeal to the World Before Collapse Becomes Inevitable

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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