Ismail H. Warsame is a Somali-Canadian political figure, author, and analyst. He played a foundational role in establishing the Puntland State of Somalia and is a prominent voice in Somali politics through his writings. Area DetailsPolitical Role First Chief of Staff/Cabinet for Puntland State (1998-2004). Key architect of Somali federalism.International Work Zonal/National Technical Coordinator for […]
WDM EDITORIAL: Somalia’s Political Decline Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It. Somalia is a country where the elderly remember too much, the youth know too little, and the so-called leaders know nothing except the quickest route to the nearest per diem.The historical account in the referenced video is not merely nostalgia—it is a […]
WHITE PAPER The Puntland Case, Federal Overreach, and the Terminal Crisis of the Somali State Warsame Digital Media (WDM) White Paper — November 2025Critical Analysis, Policy Briefing & Strategic Forecast — Executive Summary Somalia’s federal experiment—marketed in 2004 as the grand compromise to save a collapsed state—has now entered its terminal crisis stage. Federal–State relations […]
Examining the Legal Basis for Challenging Somalia’s EALA Nomination Before the East African Court of Justice by: Bashiir M. Sheikh Ali | 16 November 2025 16:48 EALA logo. Photo courtesy Somalia’s accession to the East African Community (EAC) in 2023 marked a transition from an exclusively domestic legal framework to a dual system in which national institutions will […]
WDM – Critical Analysis, News & Commentaries20 November 2025 Welcome to the Federal Republic of Fee-Somalia — a place where entering your own homeland is now a geopolitical adventure, a bureaucratic lottery, and a fiscal ambush. In this country, the price of stepping onto Somali soil depends entirely on which political fiefdom stamped your paper, […]
Welcome to Puntland—once the bedrock of a fragile Somali federation, now a mirage built not on sand but on collective fiction. The state that once prided itself as the first pillar of the federal experiment has quietly misplaced its founding objectives somewhere between donor conference buffets and expired project memoranda. Its “institutions” stand like archaeological […]
Be realistic — painfully realistic, the kind of realism that makes people shift in their seats and reach for the nearest excuse. Mogadishu is no longer a “shared capital.” It hasn’t been for more than three decades, yet the political class still recites the lie with the enthusiasm of a badly trained parrot. What stands […]
Imagine you – you did everything right. You waited. You filled out the papers. You answered the questions. You pledged allegiance. You became a citizen of United States. You believed you had joined the club. You believed citizenship meant you were safe.And then: poof. Someone upstairs decides you weren’t good enough after all. Someone digs […]
WDM EDITORIAL Somalia’s federal experiment was never meant to be glamorous, but it was at least supposed to function. Today, even that modest expectation has collapsed into a farce so grotesque it would make a kleptocrat blush. The so-called Federal Government of Somalia has ceased to exist in every capacity except one: as a passport […]
WDM EDITORIAL Let us begin with a simple civic riddle: Who broke Somalia’s fragile federal experiment long before Hassan Sheikh began hammering in the final nails?Clue: He wore a presidential sash like a Halloween costume, weaponized the NISA like a private militia, and called every sub-national leader “Walaal” while plotting their political funerals behind closed […]
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