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 […]
WAPMEN SatireMogadishu has entered its most unnatural political condition yet: restraint.With Said Abdullahi Deni and Ahmed Mohamed Islam (Ahmed Madoobe) back in town, the familiar Mogadishu sport of selective prosecutions, midnight indictments, and constitutional gymnastics has been abruptly suspended. The Banadir District Court indictment of Ahmed Madoobe? Vanished into thin air. Deni’s political isolation? Quietly […]
WAPMEN EDITORIAL There was a time when Somalia at least pretended to be governed by a constitution. Today, that document has been reduced to a disposable napkin—used, crumpled, and thrown away by Hassan Sheikh Mohamud whenever it inconveniences his next political maneuver.What we are witnessing is not subtle, not technical, and not accidental. It is […]
Leave it to Somalia’s political class to turn a traditional elders’ inauguration into a national security drill.These days, if you follow the motorcades, the chartered flights, and the sudden pilgrimage of VIPs, you’d think Galdogob has replaced Villa Somalia as the country’s real capital. Ministers, MPs, clan notables, political retirees, and freshly recycled “national figures” […]
WAPMEN EDITORIAL What on earth is happening to Somalia’s so-called Federal Parliament and Government these days?The short answer: everything that should not happen in a state pretending to be civilized.Welcome to Mohamud–Aden Madoobe Mogadishu, where governance is improvised, legality is optional, and institutions behave like temporary tents erected for a photo-op—only to collapse before the […]
WAPMEN EditorialThere are moments when truth arrives not with a bang, but with a clarification. And in Somalia’s long theatre of make-believe sovereignty, the latest clarification—delivered calmly, confidently, and without apology by Türkiye’s defence establishment—may be the most honest statement made about Somalia in years.Let us dispense with the niceties. When Türkiye publicly “clarifies” that […]
Law No. 28 of 22 December 1962Somali CitizenshipTHE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLICTaking note of the approval of the NationalAssemblyHEREBY PROMULGATESThe following law:Article 1.Acquisition of CitizenshipSomali citizenship may be acquired by operationof law or by grantArticle 2.Acquisition of Citizenship by Operation of LawAny person:a) whose father is a Somali citizen;b) who is a Somali residing in […]
WDM EDITORIAL Sunday’s farce at Aden Adde International Airport—where the Federal Government denied landing rights to delegations from Puntland and Jubaland citing a “serious threat to national security” posed by their security contingents—did not merely disrupt travel; it exposed a constitutional absurdity so stark that satire almost feels redundant. Almost. When public trust evaporates, Somalia’s […]
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