Mark the date. Join us tomorrow night, here in Hargeisa, for the discussion on Abdourahman Barkat Good's books (my translation). The author will be there too.

Soo dhowaada!

I was lucky enough to edit and proofread Mr. Goth’s anthology — I've read the book before almost every one else! Sida tukaha ayaan daruuraha ka soo cabbay!

In April, U.S.-made bombs destroyed a detention facility that held Ethiopian migrants in Yemen, crushing bodies and shredding limbs. Amid official silence, the survivors are left wondering why. nytimes.com/2025/07/12/wor…

#Jigjiga waxa nooga qabsoomay barnaamish qiime badan. Eraygan kooban baan ka idhi madasha. #BandhigBuug 👇🏾 youtu.be/pFUuLXD04hc?fe…

A former president of Africa’s most populous nation & one of the largest economies on the continent sought medical treatment in the very country that once colonised it. #Nigeria’s Buhari was a prototype of how the African (ailing) postcolonial ruling class is a total failure.

Xalay waxa #Boorama inooga qabsoomay barnaamish qiime weyn, waxana aan kaga hadlay muhiimadda turjumaadda — gaar ahaan dimuqraaddiyadaynta aqoonta iyo aqoomaynta afka. Halkan ka daawo: youtu.be/l9cf-drq284?fe…

History of humanity stored in our ’home’—the Horn of Africa. theguardian.com/global-develop…

The Nobel War Prize by Tariq Ali lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/dece…

“Nin qoyani biyo iska ma dhawro” — “When one is wet, they do not mind the water.” — A Somali proverb

First major sign of ISIS in Ethiopia as intelligence claims capturing 82 alleged operatives trained in Puntland addisstandard.com/first-major-si…

Najaax Harun’s work is unapologetic, and here is a glimpse of why. geeska.com/en/bodies-and-…

The #Somaliland delegation is so thoroughly prepared that they didn’t even bother to bring any note-taking tools!

Bal suurayso qof ka cararaya afkiisa (Soomaaliga), haddana af kale (Ingiriisi) u adeegsanaya si uu ugu ololeeyo af saddexaad (Carabi). Ma kaas baan roob ahayn; ma kaas baan Rabaso hayn!

It's Day Two of the biggest cultural event in #Somaliland and the entire Horn, which now came to age: we are celebrating its 18th edition. #HIBF2025

Somalia's inaugural president, Adam Abdulle Osman, hosts and offers a toast to Jomo Kenyatta (the leader of KANU, a freedom-fighting party, and the future first Kenyan president), during the latter's official visit to Mogadishu in 1962.

Captagon in the Sudan civil war middleeasteye.net/news/inside-dr…

Very well deserved. Ahmed I. Awale (Ahmed Ibrahim Awale) is a dedicated friend of the nature.

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.” — Antonio Gramsci

Great piece. But it falls into a well-known trap. The reference to ICU as a “locally grounded” alternative to the uncritical adoption of the Western nation-state model overlooks a crucial factor: it fails to recognise the Arab ingredient of our disaster. geeska.com/en/imagination…