No exceptions. No uniforms off duty. Mogadishu enforces the rules ahead of elections. Somali police have arrested 11 soldiers in Mogadishu for carrying weapons illegally while...
Career diplomats sidelined as loyalty reshapes U.S. foreign policy—Somalia now caught in the fallout. The U.S. Ambassador to Somalia is among nearly 30 career diplomats recalled...
No declarations. No end dates. Just American troops fighting wars that faded from public view. While Washington debates future showdowns with China, Iran, and Russia, thousands...
A deadline has been set. Ignore it, the opposition warns, and Somalia risks sliding into a constitutional and security crisis. Somalia’s fragile political equilibrium is facing...
When a state blurs the line between terrorists and authority, it rarely stops at words. Somalia’s pressure campaign against Somaliland shows what comes next. In the...
Behind Closed Doors in Addis Ababa: What Abiy Ahmed and Hassan Sheikh Really Discussed. At first glance, the officials framed Sunday’s talks as a routine strengthening...
Not fully American. No longer fully Somali. The diaspora story is more complicated than slogans. To be Somali in America is to live in a permanent...
War has stalled. Victory hasn’t arrived. And quietly, an unthinkable question is being asked: what if Somalia talks to Al-Shabaab? For years, rumors of negotiations between...
One of Somalia’s most reliable partners has not paid on time—and the delay is rippling through an already fragile budget. The Somali government has confirmed a...
Publicly, the talks were about trade and cooperation. In the background, a sensitive issue loomed: deportations from Sweden to Somalia. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on...
He was preparing to leave Somalia with his pregnant wife. Weeks later, he was shot dead in the street. A young rickshaw driver who had recently...
What Mogadishu says publicly and what regional security dynamics reveal privately are now moving in opposite directions, and the gap between the two is no longer...
The Warmth of Hell and The Cold of the Dream. Mahad Mohamud, a 36-year-old former Uber driver and asylum seeker, known to his 500,000 global followers...
Somalia has denied reports of secret contacts with Israel after WARYATV investigations exposed arms trafficking routes, Houthi–Al-Shabaab links, and covert security communications. Intelligence evidence tells a...
A Vermont school district faced racist threats after flying the Somali flag in solidarity with students. The backlash reveals how U.S. political rhetoric reverberates through immigrant...
A U.S. political cartoon targeting Ilhan Omar has gone viral in Somalia and Somaliland, revealing how American domestic politics now shape perceptions and soft power in...
Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy does something Washington avoided for years: it treats Africa not as a humanitarian afterthought, but as a frontline in great-power...
The Fifty-Year Fantasy: Mogadishu Plans a Vote While Missing a State. The Federal Government of Somalia’s latest announcement—a supposed return to direct, one-person, one-vote elections in...
THE SILENT WAR: Congressional Report Links Somaliland Instability to China’s Red Sea Strategy. While the people of Somaliland have been focused on internal debates, elections, and...
IMF BANDAGE, SOMALI ELITE BONANZA: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE $40M PAYOUT. The International Monetary Fund’s recent approval of an additional $40 million for Somalia—bringing total access...