The dictator is worse because he destroyed the entire system with all its weaknesses. The word dictator was first used by Julias Caesar, who destroyed the Roman Republic. He's the man who invented big armies, personality cult, and endless wars. Dictators destroy even themselves.

We're proud of our culture, which, in addition to love of poetry, music, and dance, provides us with the sociopolitical cohesion that makes our democracy possible. The challenge is how to modernise these traditional pillars in order to create a thriving modern state.

He is a deluded man. Despite the false claims that he is making, the broken Somalia that he wants to be part of is drifting apart. Let them live in their cuckoo-land!

هل قضاء علي الإرهاب يعني قضاء علي المقاومة الفلسطينية؟ ومتي أصبح القتال ضد الاحتلال إرهاب؟ أليس القتال ضد الاستعمار حق مشروع تقره المواثيق الأممية؟ اليم هذا التخاذل العربي الشايع!!!

Zionism exposed as Nazism!

This is an analytical critique that enlightens those who make monolithic clan identify as the central issue of the political dynamics of the Somali-speaking people. It's natural that Isaq, with a population of millions of people, can defend RSL while having different views.

Egypt has a right to be part of the proper management of the water of the Nile. However, it has no right to make threats and beat the drums of war. The Ethiopians seem to have outmanoeuvred them diplomatically. They do the diplomatic chores with researched facts about the GERD.

What elections!? In Afwerki's worldview, there shouldn't be any elections, for he came to power by force of arms and keeps it by force of arms. The freedom that Eritrea fought for meant dislodging one dictator, Mengistu, and installing another, Afwerki, in his place. Painful.

I can't understand why Europeans submit to geopolitical decisions that are in the interest of US imperialism but not in theirs. Weird. The US told Europe to stop using cheap Russian gas.They did. Then they buy expensive US gas. Result: Germany industry busted. Possessed, I guess.

Amazing what the human body and mind can do when trained properly!!!

Sovereignty is not a claim or on a map. Sovereignty is a reality expressed through the will of the people. The US constitution starts with "We, the people". The sovereignty of the Republic of Somaliland was decided through a referendum in 2001. No one else can decide for the RSL.

No matter what Egypt, Turkey, ATMIS, or any other custodian does with the blue flag that bears the white five-pointed star, it will never ever fly in the land, air, or sea of the Republic of Somaliland. The green-white-red tricolour that has the Tawhid on it will fly high in RSL

رب ضارة نافعة. الحلمة الدبلوماسية الشرسة التي قامت بها صوماليا الإيطالية السابقة ضد سيادة جمهورية صوماليلاند أتت بإعلانات مجانية غير متوقعة لصوماليلاند. بدأ الناس يسألون ما قصة التي أثارت هستيريا مصر وصوماليا؟ فوجودا حقيقة صوماليلاند وسيادتها. أصبحت جمهورية صوماليلاند حقيقة بارزه

Well done, Guled! I would have preferred an assembly of birds in the place of the assembly of goats for the simple reason of evoking the Somali song "Shibrayahow heesa!O birds sing!" 🐦 representing the image of paid MPs clapping for their paymasters. Is Somalia seriously a govt?

How can a president who doesn't control the security of the presidential palace ask for the censure of Ethiopia, which, among those whom he's soliciting their help, protect him and the pockets of the country he's supposed to lead? Let him put broken Somalia together first.

Your generation, Abdirahman, is also to blame.Many of you, many more than our generation,both inside and outside the country, are highly educated and earn good salaries. Yet you can't organise a national movement that can promote RSL nationalism rather than clan loyalty. Wake up!

مصر المحروسة، مصر الحضارة، مصر الإسكندرية ومكتبتها العتيقة، مصر المقوقس و أم المؤمنين مريم القبطية رضي الله عنها، مصر عمر إبن العاص وصلاح الدين الأيوبي، مصر الأزهر الشريف واحمد الزويل، جمهورية صوماليلاند ماتكن مصر الا احتراما وتقديرا. وعليها أن تتحرم صوماليلاند وشعبه وتقدره.

Tribalism is identity politics, and it's everywhere in the world. Sometimes, it's worse in the developed world as we see it in Trump's US and Boris' UK. However, tribalism can be transcended with universal ideas and good governance. People care about who serves them well.

It's a relief that for once you hear a media pundit, who knows what he's talking about. I would just add that the sovereignty of the RSL is indisputable. What the RSL seeks is diplomatic relations with other countries of the world, and it will get that sooner or later.

Too late. You Amharised so many Oromos, encroached on their territories, subjugated them for a century and half, and now you complain. The Amhras have to accept that Melenik's fake Ethiopian empire collapsed and out of its ashes rose majority Oromos & others who reshape Ethiopia.