The Freedom Wire

  From right: President Hassan Sheik Mohamud at the podium of announcing his appointed PM Hamza Bare . June 15, 2022. Villa Somalia, Mogadishu. Photo by Villa Somalia For the last three-plus decades, Somalia has been dominating both in the literature and news headlines with one theme: a failed state. This has been the case due to the lack of an effective central authority in the country since the fall of the dictatorial regime of Mohamed Siad Bare in 1991 followed by the devastating civil war and famines and the new paradigm shift of the Somali agony: the piracy, terrorism and unvetted and malicious foreign interferences.  However, the Somalia I’m going to write about in this essay is not the one we know in the past 30 years of mayhem but a new one that is in the realm of the hands reach to create: a just and strong sovereign Somali republic that heals the past and inspires all Somalis to protect and live in it. By proposing so, one may think that it’s merely wishful thinking...

  Photo:Aljazeeranews.com Woodrow Wilson, the father who first coined the quintessential right of nations, the right to self-determination , famously stated: "No people must be forced under sovereignty under which it does not wish to live." If one consciously observes Wilson’s grounding words of what later became the universal right that has been enshrined in the Declaration of the United Nations, it becomes a sunlight that the will of the people is the requirement to exercise the right and the former president had been granting the right to sovereignty to those who want to be sovereign. In that sense, the right to self-determination doesn’t apply to those forcefully occupied and still remain in occupation. Decolonization is their remedy and that is exactly what case of the Somalis under Ethiopia proves to be and sturdily demands. Decolonization of nations had not been in the political literature before Euro...

  On October 31, 2017, the current acting president of the occupied Somalis, the Somali Galbeed/Ogadenia, cried “so, next time you meet a civil servant with management degree from Jijiga University and you ask who Abraham Maslow was and he tells you he was a dangerous anti-peace Eretrian captured by the gallant Liyou Police, don’t get discussed,” to protest against an alleged massive academic scandal in the university which granted many never schooled civil servants to academic degrees in the fields of business and economics.To those of you who are not familiar with Abraham Maslow, he was a leading American scholar in the field of psychology in the 20th century whose works are highly practiced in the fields of psychology and industry management. One of his major contributions is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a psychological theory used for motivating humans. With still staggering achievements, poor academic standing, higher presidency turnover, and its latest interim president fired...

Photo: TRT World By: Mohamed Garad The notion that Somalis should identify themselves “Ethiopians” Hebesha or Abyssinians which are all interchangeable, in essence, is severe fallacious and a serious misleading. As a historical fact, the Ethiopia we know today had not existed until the expansion of Abyssinians, who identify themselves Habesha, dismantled indigenous states which vanished from the face of the earth along with their history and then proudly styled themselves the Ethiopians with their vast empire. Thus, in order one to judge whether one should identify himself, Ethiopian, Habesha, or Abyssinian, s/he must first elucidate the meaning of “Ethiopians”, “Abyssinians,” “Habesha” both before and after the creation of the empire.  In the words of John Markakis, a leading political historian in the horn of Africa, the Christian empire of  “Aksumite that flourished on the northmost part of the plateau in the classical times” but letter faded after Islam spread northwards “...

President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo on the wining stage February 8, 2017   “Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt” said Herbert Hoover. In my case, blessed are the young, for they inherited the divided nation.  On February 08, 2017 Somalia’s 275 members of parliament and 54 senators elected a new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmajo). It was a surprise election result that very few, if not none, expected. With the presence of serious corruption allegations which have been made against the election process and the lack of universal suffrage, no one could dare to speculate that a pure result will come out of the election process. However, when Farmajo was declared as the winner, his election victory, his clean record from any corruption scandals and his high-level popularity couldn’t add up in Somalia’s last 25 and more years known political culture. This is what made the election result surprise one and many could ask why the election of a...